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De Numenio Philosopho Platonico (Numenius Fragments)
Numenius of Apamea (ed. Friedrich Thedinga)
No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
The work 'De Numenio philosopho platonico' is a 19th-century Latin academic dissertation by Friedrich Thedinga. Extensive searches across multiple scholarly catalogs, including local catalogs, Internet Archive, and OpenAlex, yielded no evidence of an English translation. While Numenius of Apamea's fragments have been translated into English from the original Greek, this specific Latin dissertation has not been translated.
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Numenius of Apamea argues that the true inheritance of Plato is not Greek at all, but a legacy shared with the ancient wisdom of the East. This text traces his attempt to reconcile Pythagorean numbers with Platonic metaphysics to define the nature of God, the soul, and the origin of evil.