Meletius Monachus on individuality: a ninth-century Byzantine medical reading of Porphyry's Logic
The ninth-century monk and doctor Meletius offers in his treatise De natura hominis a detailed and acute analysis of individuality. Through a set of unusual and well-chosen examples, he offers an explanation of the constitution of individuals based on the solution developed by Porphyry in his Eisago...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2017
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Byzantinische Zeitschrift
Year: 2017, Volume: 110, Issue: 1, Pages: 37-60 |
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| Summary: | The ninth-century monk and doctor Meletius offers in his treatise De natura hominis a detailed and acute analysis of individuality. Through a set of unusual and well-chosen examples, he offers an explanation of the constitution of individuals based on the solution developed by Porphyry in his Eisagoge. After a discussion of the relevance of discussing individuality in a medical text, this article reconstructs Meletius’s own solution. This article also shows that Meletius’s knowledge of Porphyry comes from a passage of Theodore of Raithu that was integrated into the anonymous Christological florilegium known as the Doctrina Patrum de Incarnatione Verbi. |
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| ISSN: | 1868-9027 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Byzantinische Zeitschrift
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/bz-2017-0005 |