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Die intensive Auseinandersetzung mit Johannes von Antiochien im 19. und 20. Jh. hat eine solide Basis dafur geschaffen, den Text philologisch und historisch aufzuarbeiten. Zu den wichtigsten Ergebnissen dieser Auseinandersetzung zahlt vor allem die Scheidung der Gesamtmasse der Exzerpte aus der Edition von Muller (1851) in zwei Gruppen. Ursprunglich auf der Basis des Stilkriteriums vorgenommen, spater durch die Quellen-und Verwandschaftsverhaltnisse bestatigt, die zwischen Johannes von Antiochien und einer groen Zahl byzantinischer Geschichtschreiber bestehen, wurde diese Ansicht von allen...

Byzantine intellectuals not only had direct access to Neoplatonic sources in the original language but also, at times, showed a particular interest in them. During the Early Byzantine period Platonism significantly contributed to the development of Christian doctrines and, paradoxically, remained a rival world view that was perceived by many Christian thinkers as a serious threat to their own intellectual identity. This problematic relationship was to become even more complex during the following centuries. Byzantine authors made numerous attempts to harmonize Neoplatonic doctrines with...

In comparisonwith the wave of research dedicated to the aesthetics of the Latin Middle Ages, Byzantine aesthetics must be considered a relatively new and still largely unexplored subject. The contributions assembled in the present volume document the growing research interest in this field and present a wide variety of issues and methodologies that will be of interest to students and scholars of the philosophy, art, and literature of Late Antiquity and the Byzantine period.