Arethas of Caesarea
Arethas of Caesarea | |
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Patrae | |
Died | c. 939 AD |
Era | Middle Ages |
Region | Byzantine philosophy |
School | Macedonian Renaissance |
Main interests |
Arethas of Caesarea (
Life
He was born at
Works
He is the compiler of a Greek commentary (
His Arethas Codex is a significant source for the texts of almost all of the ante-Nicene Greek
He is also known as a commentator of Plato and Lucian; the famous manuscript of Plato (Codex Oxoniensis Clarkianus 39), taken from Patmos to London, was copied by order of Arethas. Other important Greek manuscripts, e.g. of Euclid,[12] the rhetor Aelius Aristides, and perhaps of Dio Chrysostom, are owed to him. Karl Krumbacher emphasises his fondness for ancient classical Greek literature and the original sources of Christian theology.
Arethas' works also contain the oldest known references to the Meditations (written c. 175 AD) by the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius.[13] Arethas admits to holding the work in high regard in letters to the Byzantine emperor Leo VI the Wise and in his comments to Lucian and Dio Chrysostom'. Arethas is credited with reintroducing the Meditations to public discourse.
Up through the 19th century, scholars believed there to be an earlier Arethas, also an archbishop of Caesarea, who had authored the works on the Apocalypse, around the year 540. Modern scholars believe this to be incorrect, and there to have been only one Arethas.[14]
Notes
- ^ Hadot, Pierre (1998). The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (Translated by Michael Chase). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 24.
- ^ Novotny 1977, p. 282-283.
- ^ Jenkins 1987, pp. 219–229.
- ^ Jenkins 1987, p. 220-226.
- ^ Jenkins 1987, p. 219.
- ^ Otto Bardenhewer, Patrologie, 40.
- ISBN 9789004313194.
- ISBN 978-90-04-11916-1.
- ^ Catalogue détaillé des manuscrits grecs et latins de la bibliothèque du roi, portés à l'inventaire de 1682. Latin 9355.
- ISBN 978-8-81200032-6. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
- ^ Panella, Theodora (2018). The pseudo-oecumenian catena on Galatians (PhD). University of Birmingham. p. 10. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
- ^ L.D. Reynolds and Nigel G. Wilson, Scribes and Scholars 2nd. ed. (Oxford, 1974) p. 57
- ISBN 978-1-118-21984-3. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
- ^ Smith, William. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, "Aretas".
References
- Jenkins, Romilly (1987). Byzantium: The Imperial Centuries AD 610–1071. Canada: University of Toronto Press. pp. 219–229.
- Novotny, Frantisek [in Czech] (1977). The Posthumous Life of Plato. The Hague: Springer Science & Business Media, Dec 6, 2012.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Shahan, Thomas Joseph (1907). "Arethas of Caesarea". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company.