John Italus

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John Italus[1] was a Byzantine philosopher of the eleventh century. He was Calabrian in origin, his father being a soldier[2].

He came to Constantinople, where he became a student of Michael Psellus in classical Greek philosophy. He succeeded Psellus in his position as head of the philosophical school. Subsequently he came into conflict with Diogenes, and he was condemned in 1082[3] for lack of orthodoxy.

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  • Lowell Clucas (1981), The Trial of John Italos and the Crisis of Intellectual Values in Byzantium in the Eleventh Century

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Johannes Italos, Ioannis Italos.
  2. ^ The Byzantine background to the First Crusade, by Paul Magdalino
  3. ^ The Byzantine Empire in the 11th Century

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