maximus planudes

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orig. Manuel Planudes born 1260, Nicomedia, Byzantine Empire died 1310, Constantinople Greek Orthodox scholar, anthologist, and polemicist. He established a school in Constantinople that gained a strong reputation for its humanities curriculum. His Greek translations of Latin philosophy and literature and of Arabic mathematics publicized these areas of learning throughout the Greek Byzantine cultural world. Though chiefly known for his theological writings, he made a distinctive contribution to the history of Greek literature with his revision of the Greek Anthology, a collection of Greek prose and poetry 700 BC-AD 1000

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