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Eustratios of Nicaea (c.1050–c.1120)   Reference library

The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages

... of Nicaea ( c .1050– c .1120 ) Philosopher and bishop . He was *John Italos ’s student, propounded *universals , and opposed the * filioque . Accused of heresy, he was deposed, though posthumously rehabilitated. Robert *Grosseteste ’s Latin *translation of his *commentary on Aristotle ’s Nicomachean Ethics was used by *Albertus Magnus and *Thomas Aquinas . See also philosophy, byzantine . Leslie S. B. MacCoull A. Kazhdan , ‘ Eustratios of Nicaea ’, ODB , vol. 2, 755. D. O’Meara , ‘Praktische Weisheit bei Eustratios von Nikaia’,...

Eustratios of Nicaea   Reference library

Alexander Kazhdan

The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium

... of Nicaea , philosopher and theologian, pupil of John Italos ; fl. ca. 1100 . Eustratios was not condemned in 1082 with his teacher but was promoted by Alexios I . He supported the emperor in his confrontation with Leo of Chalcedon , became oikoumenikos didaskalos ca. 1115/16 ( Darrouzès , Ecclés . 306, fr.2) and metropolitan of Nicaea. With John Phournes Eustratios participated in the dispute against Peter Grossolano . In 1114 he polemicized in Philippopolis against the Armenians. Eustratios commented on Aristotle and proclaimed the...

Nicholas of Kerkyra   Reference library

Alexander Kazhdan

The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium

...of Kerkyra , writer, metropolitan of Kerkyra; fl. ca. 1100 . He was a participant in the council of 1117 concerning Eustratios of Nicaea . Nicholas wrote a lengthy commentary on Maximos the Confessor , with a verse prologue. His letter of abdication (a genre developed by Patr. Nicholas IV ) presents the author as an honest man in a rotten world whose only hope is life in a desert. In enigmatic lines (p.33.76–78) Nicholas contrasts himself, an objective writer, with “the daughter of the emperor,” who praises everything; did he mean Anna Komnene ?...

Seides, Niketas   Reference library

Alexander Kazhdan

The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium

...In 1117 Seides attacked Eustratios of Nicaea , accusing him of “atheism.” ed. R. Gahbauer , Gegen den Primat des Papstes: Studien zu Niketas Seides (Munich 1975). Darrouzès , Ecclés. 306–09 (republ. with corr. by Th.N. Zeses , Kleronomia 8 [1976] 77–82). Beck , Kirche 617f. O. Schissel , Niketas Seidos: Eine Handschriftenstudie , Divus Thomas 15 (1937) 78–90. Alexander...

Grosseteste, Robert   Reference library

Michael W. Tkacz

The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium

... Nicomachean Ethics , with the commentaries of Michael of Ephesus , Eustratios of Nicaea , and others; the pseudo- Dionysios corpus, with the scholia of Maximos the Confessor ; On the Orthodox Faith by John of Damascus; On the Passions , attributed to Andronikos of Rhodes; and other theological texts. ed. Pseudo-Andronicus de Rhodes “Peri pathon,” ed. A. Glibert-Thirry (Leiden 1977). The Greek Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle in the Latin Translation of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, ed. H. Mercken (Leiden 1973). For...

Niketas of Herakleia   Reference library

Alexander Kazhdan

The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium

...of Herakleia , theologian; born ca. 1050 , died after 1117 (not 1030–1100 , as stated in Beck, Kirche 651). Neither his career nor the exact composition of his oeuvre is yet established. He was nephew of a metropolitan of Serres and held the post of didaskalos of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. In 1117 Niketas, already metropolitan of Herakleia, was among the accusers of Eustratios of Nicaea . He corresponded with Theophylaktos of Ohrid; J. Darrouzès has proved that Niketas did not correspond with Niketas Stethatos ( Nicétas Stéthatos,...

Synodikon of Orthodoxy   Reference library

Alexander Kazhdan

The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium

...such as Eustratios of Nicaea , Barlaam of Calabria , Akindynos , etc. The last known recension is of 1439 . The Synodikon existed in various versions, both Constantinopolitan and provincial. Additions to the 10th-C. text are an important source for the study of religious and ideological controversies in Byz. According to V. Mošin ( infra ), an Old Slavonic translation of the Synodikon was known in Kievan Rus᾽ by the first third of the 12th C., and a new translation was produced in Bulgaria under Tsar Boril in 1211 . ed . J. Gouillard , Le...

Logic   Reference library

Dominic J. O'Meara

The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium

...suggested by John of Damascus, was exemplified later in Eustratios of Nicaea's claim that Christ used syllogisms. Logic also suffered, however, from movements of rejection of pagan learning, esp. in the context of conflict with a Latin Scholastic theology characterized by logical formalism. Some Byz. intellectuals, however, found merit in such theological use of logic. The logic of Latin Scholasticism was made available in Planoudes' translation of Boethius and Gennadios II Scholarios 's translation of Peter of Spain. Byz. thinkers influenced by...

Ethics   Reference library

Dominic J. O'Meara

The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium

...accumulated. His Nicomachean Ethics was read with ancient anonymous scholia and those of Aspasios, to which were added partial commentaries by Michael of Ephesus , Eustratios of Nicaea , and a slightly later Byz. anonymous, the whole constituting a corpus translated into Latin by Robert Grosseteste . A paraphrase of the Nicomachean Ethics was copied for John VI Kantakouzenos . On the basis of such materials, summaries of ethics were prepared, for example, by John of Damascus , Michael Psellos , and Joseph Rhakendytes . Another ethical system that had...

Physics   Reference library

David Pingree

The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium

...Italos , Epitome by Theodore of Smyrna , and the so-called Meteorology by Eustratios of Nicaea . Discussions of various aspects of physics from different Christian standpoints can be found in such works as the Hexaemeron of Basil of Caesarea and of George of Pisidia and the Therapeutics of Theodoret of Cyrrhus. David...