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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 59. Chapters: Isidore of Miletus, George Pachymeres, Michael Choniates, Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos, Patriarch John XIV of Constantinople, Patriarch Alexius of Constantinople, Luke Chrysoberges, Patriarch Callistus I of Constantinople, Patriarch Cosmas I of Constantinople, Theodore I, Marquess of Montferrat, Leo II, Simeon Seth, Smaragdus, George Amiroutzes, Eutychius, George, Emperor of Trebizond, Theodora Anna Doukaina Selvo, Nicetas, John III of Trebizond, Bacurius the Iberian, Theophylact Simocatta, Saul Abramzon, Patriarch Joseph II of Constantinop...
The Greek commentary tradition devoted to explicating Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (NE) was extensive. It began in antiquity with Aspasius and reached a point of immense sophistication in the twelfth century with the commentaries of Eustratius of Nicaea and Michael of Ephesus, which primarily served educational purposes. The use of Aristotle’s ethics in the classroom continued into the late Byzantine period, but until recently scholastic use of the NE was known mostly through George Pachymeres’ epitome of the NE (Book 11 of his Philosophia). This volume radically changes the landscape by providing the editio princeps of the last surviving exegetical commentary on the NE stricto sensu...
Makes the study of medieval Greek historical writing accessible by providing fundamental orientation and information.
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 18. Chapters: Averroes, Proclus, Ammonius Hermiae, George Pachymeres, Damascius, Crantor, Porphyry, Cassius Longinus, Olympiodorus the Younger, Syrianus, Calcidius, Aspasius, Dexippus, Onasander. Excerpt: (Arabic: ), better known just as Ibn Rushd (Arabic: ), and in European literature as Averroes (; 1126 - December 10, 1198), was a Muslim polymath; a master of Aristotelian philosophy, Islamic philosophy, Islamic theology, Maliki law and jurisprudence, logic, psychology, politics, Arabic music theory, and the sciences of medicine, astronomy, geography, mathem...
Western studies tend to view Byzantine philosophy either as a minor offshoot of western European thought, or a handy storehouse for documents and ideas until they are needed. A scholar of philosophy (Aristotle U. of Thessaloniki), Tatakis (1896-1996) finds the view limiting, pointing out that during the Roman period, few Greeks learned Latin but Romans were not considered educated without a founding in Greek, and that Byzantine Christianity has its own trajectory unconcerned with how it deviates from western orthodoxy.