Themistius (317 - c. 387), named sii~paili~11 (eloquent), statesman, rhetorician and philosopher, was born in Paphlagonia and taught at Constantinople, where, apart from a short sojourn in Rome, he resided during the rest of his life. Events Jin Yuan Di succeeds Jin Min Di; end of the western and beginning of the eastern Jin Dynasty King Marian II of Iberia declares Christianity the official state religion Births February _ Constantine II, Roman Emperor Deaths Categories: 317 ... Events The widowed Roman Emperor Theodosius I marries Galla, sister of his colleague Valentinian II Births Deaths Flaccilla, wife of the Roman Emperor Theodosius I. Categories: 387 ... The term statesman is a respectful term used to refer to diplomats, politicians, and other notable figures of state. ... Rhetoric (from Greek ρήτωρ, rhêtôr, orator) is the art or technique of persuasion, usually through the use of language. ... A philosopher is a person who thinks deeply regarding people, society, the world, and/or the universe. ... Paphlagonia was an ancient area on the northern central Black Sea coast of Anatolia, situated between Bithynia and Pontus, separated from Galatia by a prolongation to the east of the Bithynian Olympus. ... Map of Constantinople. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Left-Wing Democrats) Area  - City Proper  1285 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,553,873 almost 4,300,000 1. ...

Though a pagan, he was admitted to the senate by Constantius II in 355. He was prefect of Constantinople in 384 on the nomination of Theodosius. His paraphrases of Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, Physics and De Anima are valuable; but the orations in which he panegyrizes successive emperors, comparing them to Platos true philosopher, and even to the idea itself, are servile and unworthy. Against this, however, should be set the description given by Boëthius, disertissimus scriptor ad lucidus, et omnia ad facilitatem inteliigentiae revocans, and that of Gregory Nazianzen--with whom Themistius corresponded. Themistius's paraphrases of the De Caelo and of book A of the Metaphysics have reached us only through Hebrew versions. In philosophy Themistius was an eclectic. He held that Plato and Aristotle were in substantial agreement, that God has made men free to adopt the mode of worship they prefer, and that Christianity and Hellenism were merely two forms of the one universal religion. Paganism (from Latin paganus) and Heathenry are catch-all terms which have come to connote a broad set of spiritual/religious beliefs and practices of a natural religion, as opposed to the Abrahamic religions. ... emperor Constantius II Constantius II (Flavius Julius Constantius), Roman Emperor (7 August 317 - 3 November 361, reigned 337 - 361), was the second of the three sons of Constantine I and Fausta. ... Events November 6 - Julian is promoted to Caesar. ... Events Forum of Theodosius built in Constantinople. ... On the reverse of this coin minted under Valentinian II, both Valentinian and Theodosius are depicted with halos. ... Aristotle (Ancient Greek: AristotelÄ“s 384 BC – March 7, 322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, who studied with Plato and taught Alexander the Great. ... Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (AD 480 - 524 or 525) was a Christian philosopher of the 6th century. ... Saint Gregory Nazianzus (AD 329 - January 25, 389), also known as Saint Gregory the Theologian, was a 4th century Christian bishop of Constantinople. ... On the Heavens (or De Caelo) is Aristotles chief cosmological treatise: it contains his astronomical theory. ... Plato Plato (Greek: Πλάτων, Plátōn) (c. ... Michelangelos depiction of God in the painting Creation of the Sun and Moon in the Sistine Chapel This article discusses the term God in the context of monotheism and derived henotheistic forms. ... Christianity is a monotheistic religion centered on the life, teachings, and actions of Jesus of Nazareth, known by Christians as Jesus Christ, as recounted in the New Testament. ... The term Hellenistic (established by the German historian Johann Gustav Droysen) in the history of the ancient world is used to refer to the shift from a culture dominated by ethnic Greeks, however scattered geographically, to a culture dominated by Greek-speakers of whatever ethnicity, and from the political dominance...

References

• The first edition of Themistius's works (Venice, 1534) included the paraphrases and eight of the orations
• Nineteen orations were known to Petavius, whose editions appeared in 1613 and 1618
• Jean Hardouin (Paris, 1684) gives thirty-three
• Another oration was discovered by Angelo Mai, and published at Milan in 1816.
• W. Dindorf edition of the orations (Leipzig, 1832)
• Leonhard von Spengel's of the paraphrases (Leipzig, 1866).

The Latin translations of the Hebrew versions of the paraphrases of the De Coda and book A of the Metaphysics were published at Venice in 1574 and 1558 respectively. A new edition of the latter by S. Landauer appeared in 1903. Denis Pétau, also known as Dionysius Petavius (August 21, 1583 - December 11, 1652) was a French Jesuit theologian. ... Jean Hardouin (1646 - September 3, 1729), French classical scholar, was born at Quimper in Brittany. ... Angelo Mai (March 7, 1782 - September 8, 1854), Italian cardinal and philologist, was born of humble parents at Schilpario in the province of Bergamo, Lombardy. ... Karl Wilhelm Dindorf (January 2, 1802 - August 1, 1883), German classical scholar, was born at Leipzig. ... Hebrew (עִבְרִית ‘Ivrit) is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by more than seven million people in Israel, the West Bank, the United States, and by Jewish communities around the world. ...

See

• Fabricius, Bibliotheca Graeca, vi. 790 seq.
• Eduard Zeller, History of Greek Phil.
• Eugène Baret, De Themistio sophista et apud imperatores oratore (Paris dissertation, 1853)
• Amable Jourdain's Recherches critiques sur l'âge et l'origine des traductions latines d'Aristote (Paris, 1819).

For Themistius's Commentaries on Aristotle, see Johann Albert Fabricius (November 11, 1668 - April 30, 1736), was a German classical scholar and bibliographer. ... Eduard Zeller (January 22, 1814 - March 19, 1908), was a German philosopher. ...

• Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca (Berlin)
• Themistii paraphrases Aristotelis libroruin quae supersunt, ed. L. Spengel (1866, Teubner series, mentioned above).

• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication in the public domain.