{"id":532,"date":"2010-01-16T18:27:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T18:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=532"},"modified":"2025-07-30T09:02:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T08:02:54","slug":"george-gemistos-plethon-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/george-gemistos-plethon-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Plethon, George Gemistos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>George Gemistos<\/strong> <strong>P<\/strong><strong>lethon <\/strong><strong>(c.1355-c.1452) <\/strong>was born in Constantinople <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/plethon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26897\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/plethon.jpg\" alt=\"plethon\" width=\"184\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a>during the final years of the Byzantine Empire. He is generally credited with reviving interest in Greek learning in Western Europe. Plethon was keen to heal the schism between the Eastern and Western Churches and also tried to reconcile Platonic thinking with Christianity, including the reintroduction of the Olympian gods<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(a)<\/span><\/sup>. He is sometimes referred to as one of the first &#8216;Pagan&#8217; Neo-Platonists.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that Plethon gave a Greek copy of Plato\u2019s Dialogues to Cosimo de Medici and made such an impression on him that de Medici founded a new Platonic Academy at Florence and appointed Marsilio Ficino to head it<sup>(b)<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/strong><\/sup>. From there Ficino went on to be the first to\u00a0translate the entire works of Plato from Greek to Latin, published in 1484.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/baringtheaegis.blogspot.ie\/2014\/04\/on-george-gemistos-plethon-and-his.html\">https:\/\/baringtheaegis.blogspot.ie\/2014\/04\/on-george-gemistos-plethon-and-his.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyeofthepsychic.com\/ficino_mag\/\">Corpus Hermeticum &#8211; Ficino: The high priest of the Renaissance &#8211; Eye Of The Psychic<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Gemistos Plethon (c.1355-c.1452) was born in Constantinople during the final years of the Byzantine Empire. He is generally credited with reviving interest in Greek learning in Western Europe. Plethon was keen to heal the schism between the Eastern and Western Churches and also tried to reconcile Platonic thinking with Christianity, including the reintroduction of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64202,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions\/64202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}