Greek Wisdom Literature and the Middle Ages

The Author: Francisco Rodríguez Adrados is emeritus professor of Greek Philology at the Complutense University of Madrid, a member of the Royal Academies of the Spanish Language and of History and Honorary President of the Spanish Society of Classical Studies and director of journals and scientific projects associated with the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. He continues to work in Indoeuropean and general linguistics, in archaic and classical Greek literature and related areas, always suggesting a new approach in outlining great general perspectives. He has translated some of the principal authors of classical Greece (Aeschylus, Thucydides, Aristophanes, etc.). His vast bibliography includes Orígenes de la lírica griega, Fiesta, comedia y tragedia, Manual de Lingüística Indoeuropea, Evolución y estructura del verbo indoeuropeo, Historia de la fábula greco-latina, Historia de la lengua griega and Historia de las lenguas de Europa.

Contents: Four Castilian Works That Come from Arabic and in the Final Analysis from Lost Greek Originals - A Study of the Sapiential Tradition That Led to Our Works - The Greek Models for the Themes of Aristotle and Alexander - Our Works within the Ancient Sapiential Tradition: Recent Strata - Socratic and Post-Socratic Lives and Gnomologies. I. Socrates - Socratic and Post-Socratic Lives and Gnomologies. II. The Socratic School - New Research on Buenos Proverbios and Bocados de Oro - Poridad de las Poridades and Historia de la Donzella Teodor - Addenda to the 2001 edition of "Modelos Griegos".