mountainman

Hey SM,

I have been following your academic research enough to
know you have established a network of people who either
directly, or one step removed, know their Latin very well.

In your estimation, how many $US would it cost this year
to perform a new Latin translation for Codex Sixteen of the
Theodosianus set? Or Roger, of course, if you get this post.

Best wishes,


Pete Brown

mountainman

AFAIK "Vatican" stems from the sankrit, and there
are numerous shiva relics scattered through Italy
and the Roman empire.


Best wishes,

Pete Brown

mountainman

Ascetic contemplation was the ancient authority.
It subsumed the intellectual contemplation.
And today, beneath the surface of all things,
IMO, still does.

Thanks premjam.

Best wishes


Pete Brown

premjan

Logos (of Heraclitus) = Brahman. They are nearly identical concepts. Logos is perhaps a little more structured as from it has come Logic, whereas Brahman implies a cosmic order or reality of some kind that need not be as structured as Logic.

Solitary Man

I'm not sure I agree that ὁ λογος necessarily has to be logical (Heraclitus aside).

Chili

But Shiva is and still is Shiva by any other name . . . or Jesus couln't be a dud left behind, . . . as in mother there is your son, son there is your mother.

mountainman

I have found this article helpful in the past:
Indian Physics: Outline of Early History

The author presents six systems of Indian philosophy
as three sets of complimentary pairs, logic being paired
with (the Indian equivalent of) physics.

It is very similar to the structures set forth by the
pythagoreans and neopythagoreans. To repeat,
IMO - the transmission of this knowledge both in
the east and in the west (before Constantine) was
via collegiate and tolerant networks of ascetic adepts
and their priesthoods - of various temples and traditions
in Egypt, Greece and throughout the empire from
500 BCE to at least Constantine, when the temple
practices (effectively) ceased.

See:
Constantine and the Problem of Anti-Pagan Legislation in the Fourth Century
Scott Bradbury, Classical Philology, Vol. 89, No. 2 (Apr., 1994), pp. 120-139

Constantine's Prohibition of Pagan Sacrifice
T. D. Barnes, The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 105, No. 1 (Spring, 1984), pp. 69-72


Best wishes,


Pete Brown

Toto

Theodosian Code book XVI contains a fair use except from

Henry Bettenson, ed., Documents of the Christian Church (or via: amazon.co.uk)

p. 24 can be viewed on Amazon preview, and some very cheap used copies are available.

Is there a reason this needs to be retranslated?

JohnG

Thanks Toto. I read the excerpt from the book you posted. It's what I'm after.

mountainman

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