Leo the Mathematician, also known as Leo the Grammarian or Leo the Philosopher, was a Byzantine philosopher and logician who lived from about 790 until after January 9, 869, associated with the Macedonian Renaissance and the end of the second period of Byzantine Iconoclasm. He served as archbishop of Thessalonica before heading the Magnaura School of philosophy in Constantinople, where he taught Aristotelian logic, and has been described as the cleverest man in Byzantium in the ninth century for intellectual accomplishments spanning philosophy, mathematics, medicine and science, though most of his original writings are lost; his only preserved writings are notes contained in manuscripts of Plato's dialogues.
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Defining MomentAppointed around 855 by Bardas to head the newly established Magnaura School 1 Notable PublicationNotes in manuscripts of Plato's dialogues (his only preserved writings) 1 Office HeldArchbishop of Thessalonica; head of the Magnaura School of philosophy in Constantinople 1 Partially Attested
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Leo was born in Thessaly
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He was archbishop of Thessalonica and later became the head of the Magnaura School of philosophy in Constantinople
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some notes contained in manuscripts of Plato's dialogues
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Leo was appointed at the head of a newly established Magnaura School by Bardas
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Leo the Mathematician, the Grammarian or the Philosopher (Ancient Greek: Λέων ὁ Μαθηματικός or ὁ Φιλόσοφος, Léōn ho Mathēmatikós or ho Philósophos; c. 790, after January 9, 869) was a Byzantine philosopher and logician associated with the Macedonian Renaissance and the end of the Second Byzantine Iconoclasm.
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Leo the Mathematician, the Grammarian or the Philosopher (Ancient Greek: Λέων ὁ Μαθηματικός or ὁ Φιλόσοφος, Léōn ho Mathēmatikós or ho Philósophos; c. 790, after January 9, 869) was a Byzantine philosopher and logician associated with the Macedonian Renaissance and the end of the Second Byzantine Iconoclasm.
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Φιλόσοφος, Léōn ho Mathēmatikós or ho Philósophos; c. 790, after January 9, 869) was a Byzantine philosopher and logician associated with the Macedonian Renaissance and the end of the Second Byzantine
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