1. Leo the Mathematician or the Philosopher
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2. Leo the Mathematician or the Philosopher
was a Byzantine philosopher and logician
associated with the Macedonian Renaissance and
the end of Iconoclasm.
His only preserved writings are some notes
contained in manuscripts of Plato's dialogues. He
has been called a "true Renaissance man“ and "the
cleverest man in Byzantium in the 9th century". He
was archbishop of Thessalonica and later became
the head of the Magnaura School of philosophy in
Constantinople, where he taught Aristotelian logic.
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3. PROJECTS
Most of Leo's writings have been lost. He wrote booklength works, poems, and many epigrams, and was
also a compiler, who brought together a wide range
of philosophical, medical, and astronomic texts. His
library can at least partially be reconstructed:
Archimedes, Euclid, Plato, Paul of Alexandria, Theon of
Alexandria, Proclus, Porphyry, Apollonius of Perga, the
lost Mechanics of Quirinus and Marcellus, and possibly
Thucydides. He composed his own medical
encyclopaedia.
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4. QUIZ
Where was Leo born?
-Constantinople
-Thessaly
-Athens
-Andros
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5. When was he born?
-In the 10th century
-In the 6th century
-In the 4th century
-In the 9th century
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6. What was Leo studying about?
-History
-Αlchemy
-Astrology
-Archeology
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