Leo the Mathematician

Leo the Mathematician, the Grammarian or the Philosopher (‹See Tfd›Greek: Λέων ὁ Μαθηματικός or ὁ Φιλόσοφος, Léōn ho Mathēmatikós or ho Philósophos; c. 790 – after January 9, 869[1]) was a Byzantine philosopher and logician associated with the Macedonian Renaissance and the end of the Second Byzantine Iconoclasm. His only preserved writings are some notes contained in manuscripts of Plato's dialogues. He has been called a "true Renaissance man"[2] and "the cleverest man in Byzantium in the 9th century".[3] He was archbishop of Thessalonica and later became the head of the Magnaura School of philosophy in Constantinople,[4] where he taught Aristotelian logic.

  1. ^ Symeon the Logothete, Chronographia 132.4. Symeon the Logothete as well as the separate recension of the Chronographia written by Pseudo-Symeon the Logothete mentions that Leo survives the 869 AD Earthquake of Byzantium, which occurred during the Feast of St. Polyeuktos on January 9th, 869.
  2. ^ Marcus Louis Rautman (2006), Daily Life in the Byzantine Empire (Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 0-313-32437-9), 294–95.
  3. ^ "History of the Pianola". Pianola Institute.
  4. ^ Holmes, George (1990). The Oxford illustrated history of medieval Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 52. ISBN 978-0-19-285435-3.