- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226075358
- eISBN:
- 9780226075389
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226075389.003.0008
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy
This chapter gives an outline about the obstinately truthful Byzantine society, which is a model of the culture of antiquity. Its fondness did suffer blows from the economic, social, and political ...
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This chapter gives an outline about the obstinately truthful Byzantine society, which is a model of the culture of antiquity. Its fondness did suffer blows from the economic, social, and political crises affecting the Roman Empire which resulted in the punishment of the Pagan-oriented renaissances. The Christian empire did not want to put advanced education to a religious mold. However, the closure of the Neoplatonic School of Athens by Justinian in A.D. 529 was linked to the struggle of state Christianity against militant paganism. The Byzantine world preserved the Greek culture it had inherited and was quite concerned to do so untill the end. This chapter summarizes the types of interpretation carried out by Byzantine, including the interpretation of the moral, physical, and historical types of Stoic inspiration by grammarians such as Eustathius and Tzetzes. It also looks at Neoplatonic inspired mysterical interpretation by philosophers such as Psellus.Less
This chapter gives an outline about the obstinately truthful Byzantine society, which is a model of the culture of antiquity. Its fondness did suffer blows from the economic, social, and political crises affecting the Roman Empire which resulted in the punishment of the Pagan-oriented renaissances. The Christian empire did not want to put advanced education to a religious mold. However, the closure of the Neoplatonic School of Athens by Justinian in A.D. 529 was linked to the struggle of state Christianity against militant paganism. The Byzantine world preserved the Greek culture it had inherited and was quite concerned to do so untill the end. This chapter summarizes the types of interpretation carried out by Byzantine, including the interpretation of the moral, physical, and historical types of Stoic inspiration by grammarians such as Eustathius and Tzetzes. It also looks at Neoplatonic inspired mysterical interpretation by philosophers such as Psellus.
