Plotinus goes out under Aristotle's name

In al-Kindī's circle, a paraphrase of Enneads IV–VI is put into Arabic and attributed to Aristotle. For the next seven centuries, Muslim, Jewish and Christian philosophers read emanation as Aristotelian doctrine.

The hinge of the pack. The Tree's Greek inheritance arrived wearing the wrong name — and the wrong name is exactly why it was read so widely and trusted so completely.