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Augustine in Byzantium
by JOSEF LO
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s Cornelius Mayer wrote recently, the massive output of literature
on Augustine (c. o,ooo extant titles) cannot hide the fact that
much scholarly work remains to be done on the enormous variety
and scope of Augustines inuence ." One area of which this is particularly
true is Augustines impact on Byzantine theology.
While Augustines own use of Greek patristic literature and contacts
with the Greek patristic world have been investigated for some time and
in some detail, his inuence on Greek authors especially during the later
Byzantine era has been sadly neglected. However, recent research on
such authors as Maximos Planudes (c. 1i1o), Gregory Palamas
(1i61) and Prochoros Kydones (c. 1c. 1o) has done
something to remedy that situation. This paper seeks to present a
summary of that development and provide a context for further study.
Augustines interest and impact in the east during his lifetime
Augustines relationship to Greek may seem somewhat ambiguous.
Partly, the ambiguity is of his own making. While he did little to hide the
fact that he had never set foot in a Greek-speaking country and, as a boy,
attended without much benet the lessons of his Greek grammaticus # he
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BZlByzantinische Zeitschrift ; JOBlJahrbuch der oWsterreichischen Byzantinistik; Plan., Aug.
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# Augustinus, Confessiones i. 1. io, CCL xxvii. 11, line 16; ep. cxx. i. 1o, CSEL xxxiv\ii.
1i, lines ii; De trinitate ix. 6. 1o, CCL 1. oi, lines i8. See also the survey in P.
Courcelle, Late Latin writers and their Greek sources, Cambridge, Mass. 16, 16 (on
language), 16io8 (on the inuence of pagan and patristic Greek literature).