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133:. He considered innovative his practice of writing a running explanatory account of every passage in Aristotle, incorporating amplifications of Aristotle's paraphrasers or those critical remarks of the commentators that he thought necessary to understand the text. The value of the works of Sophonias is that they contain excerpts from the best of the earlier commentators. 103:, may be regarded as certain, and the method of composition does not resemble Themistius' at all. Sophonias wrote paraphrases of Aristotle's 308: 303: 323: 318: 298: 293: 160: 313: 288: 283: 278: 273: 69:, which are still extant. Little is known about Sophonias, except that he was probably the monk sent by 100: 82: 38: 73:
on an abortive mission to arrange a marriage between Michael and a western princess around 1295.
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A history of classical scholarship from the sixth century B.C. to the end of the Middle Ages
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In his works Sophonias has interwoven the statements of Aristotle with the scholia of
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Commentators and Commentaries on Aristotle's Sophistici Elenchi
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Index

Greek
Byzantine
monk
commentaries
Aristotle
De Anima
Sophistici Elenchi
Prior Analytics
Parva Naturalia
Michael IX Palaiologos
Byzantine Aristotelianism
Michael of Ephesus
Themistius
Valentin Rose
Categories
De Memoria
De Somno
"Byzantine Philosophy"
Zalta, Edward N.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Paul Wendland


In parva naturalia
In libros de anima paraphrasis
Categories
13th-century births
14th-century deaths
13th-century philosophers
14th-century philosophers

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