Abstract
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.
© 2017 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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- Titelei
- Siglenverzeichnis
- Mitteilung des Verlags
- Procopius’s Old English
- Erstlesungen und Korrekturen von Notarsnamen in den „Notarsunterschriften im byzantinischen Ägypten“
- Meletius Monachus on individuality: a ninth-century Byzantine medical reading of Porphyry’s Logic
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- Wer hat den Dyotheletismus erfunden?
- Again on the Historia Imperatorum – and on the Mantzikert Campaign
- La dynamique de la vie spirituelle chez saint Jean Climaque: un bref regard comparatif avec saint Grégoire de Nysse
- II. ABTEILUNG
- Totentafel
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelei
- Siglenverzeichnis
- Mitteilung des Verlags
- Procopius’s Old English
- Erstlesungen und Korrekturen von Notarsnamen in den „Notarsunterschriften im byzantinischen Ägypten“
- Meletius Monachus on individuality: a ninth-century Byzantine medical reading of Porphyry’s Logic
- On Anatolios in the Geoponika: one author or three?
- … et l’âme créa le rêve. Le traité Sur les songes de Synésios de Cyrène
- Wer hat den Dyotheletismus erfunden?
- Again on the Historia Imperatorum – and on the Mantzikert Campaign
- La dynamique de la vie spirituelle chez saint Jean Climaque: un bref regard comparatif avec saint Grégoire de Nysse
- II. ABTEILUNG
- Totentafel