Sophonias was a Byzantine monk, active in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, who wrote commentaries or paraphrases on several works of Aristotle, including De Anima, the Sophistical Refutations, the Prior Analytics and the Parva Naturalia, all of which still survive. Little else is known of his life beyond his probable service as an envoy sent by the Byzantine emperor Michael IX Palaiologos around 1295.
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Defining MomentProbably the monk sent by Michael IX Palaiologos around 1295 on an abortive mission to arrange a marriage with a western princess 1 Source hedges with 'probably'; the fetch tool did not return the section heading Classification
NationalityByzantine Empire (Historical) 1 Notable Publication Tradition
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1. Wikipedia: Sophonias (commentator)
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the monk sent by Michael IX Palaiologos on an abortive mission to arrange a marriage between Michael and a western princess around 1295
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De Anima
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was a Byzantine monk
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Sophonias (Greek: Σοφονίας; fl. 13th-14th century) was a Byzantine monk who wrote commentaries or paraphrases of the works of Aristotle including De Anima, Sophistici Elenchi, Prior Analytics, and the Parva Naturalia, which are still extant.
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