Eustathius of Thessalonica
Eustathius of Thessalonica
Born circa 1115; died circa 1193. Byzantine philologist and teacher of rhetoric; metropolitan of Thessalonica.
Eustathius was the author of commentaries on Homer, Pindar, Aristophanes, and the geographer Dionysius Periegetes and of a pamphlet on the decay of monastic morality. He was the only Byzantine philologist who not only reproduced an original text but also made conjectures to restore a corrupted one.
WORKS
Eustathii orationes. St. Petersburg, 1892.REFERENCES
Istoriia Vizantii, vol. 2. Moscow, 1967. Chapter 17.Maas, P. “Eustathios als Konjekturalkritiker.” Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 1936, vol. 36. Pages 27-31.
Wirth, P. Untersuchungen zur byzantinischen Rhetorik des zwölften Jahrhunderts. Munich, 1960.