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SUMMARY:The Greek and Arabic Reception of Ptolemy's Almagest between the 7
 th and 9th Centuries | Maria Mavroudi
LOCATION:Encina Commons 123\, 615 Crothers Way\, Stanford\, CA 94305
DESCRIPTION:The period between the seventh and the ninth centuries has fre
 quently been portrayed in scholarship as “dark”\, especially because its 
 intellectual production appears low. Overall\, it is deemed as an empty i
 nterval between the end of the intellectual efflorescence of antiquity an
 d the presumed renaissance of philosophy and the sciences in the Arab wor
 ld enabled by the Greek-to-Arabic translation movement in ninth- and tent
 h-century Baghdad. This talk will re-examine these scholarly assessments 
 by using the reception of Ptolemy’s Almagest as an example.\n\nMaria Mavr
 oudi was born in Thessaloniki\, Greece and studied Philology at the Unive
 rsity of her native city before earning a Ph.D. in Byzantine studies at H
 arvard. Her scholarly work begun by focusing on a tenth-century Byzantine
  book on dream interpretation that had been widely received in Latin and 
 the European vernaculars and counted as the Christian dreambook of the Mi
 ddle Ages. While generally viewed as a Byzantine invention partly based o
 n the second-century manual of Artemidorus\, she showed that it was a Chr
 istian adaptation of Arabic Islamic material and one among a larger group
  of texts originally written in Arabic or Persian and received into Greek
  between the ninth and the fifteenth centuries. During the next two decad
 es\, she worked on identifying the place of these translations within Byz
 antine literary culture and its reception in “East” and “West’ during the
  medieval and early modern period. This begs reconsidering\n\nhttp://next
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