Yury Arzhanov

Yury Arzhanov earned his PhD in Oriental Studies from the University of St. Petersburg. He has worked at various universities in Germany and at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Currently, he is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Salzburg. His research interests concern the Late Antique Syriac translations of Greek philosophy, focusing on the Christian Oriental reception of Aristotle's logic.

Selected Publications

Books

  • Syriac Sayings of Greek Philosophers: A Study in Syriac Gnomologia with Edition and Translation, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, vol. 669; Subsidia, t. 138; Leuven: Peeters, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1q26wgv
  • Porphyry, 'On Principles and Matter': A Syriac Version of a Lost Greek Text with an English Translation, Introduction, and Glossaries, Scientia Graeco-Arabica 34, Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110747027.
  • Sergius of Reshaina, Commentary on Aristotle's ›Categories‹: Critical Edition and Translation, Philosophy and Sciences in the Christian Orient 2; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111444536.

Articles

  • "Menander in Syriac: From Euthalian Apparatus to Scholia on Gregory of Nazianzus", Studia Graeco-Arabica 7 (2017), 31–48.
  • "Plato in Syriac Literature", Le Muséon 132.1–2 (2019), 1–36.
  • "A Fragment of the Syriac Translation of Aristotle's Poetics Preserved by Jacob Bar Shakko", Philologia Classica 16.1 (2021), 117–137.