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ARETHAS (c. 860-940)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 456 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARETHAS (c. 860-940)  , See also:Byzantine theological writer and See also:scholar, See also:archbishop of Caesarea in See also:Cappadocia, was See also:born at Patrae . He was the author of a See also:Greek commentary on the See also:Apocalypse, avowedly based upon that of See also:Andrew, his predecessor in the archbishopric . In spite of its author's modest estimate, See also:Arethas's See also:work is by no means a slavish compilation; it contains additions from other See also:sources, and especial care has been taken in verifying the references . His See also:interest was not, however, confined to theological literature; he annotated the margins of his classical texts with numerous scholia (many of which are preserved), and had several See also:MSS. copied at his own expense, amongst them the Codex Clarkianus of See also:Plato (brought to See also:England from the monastery of St See also:John in See also:Patmos), and the Dorvillian MS. of See also:Euclid (now at See also:Oxford) . Most divergent opinions have been held as to the See also:time in which Arethas lived; the reasons for the See also:dates given above will be found succinctly stated in the See also:article " See also:Aretas," by A . Julicher in Pauly-Wissowa's Realeneyclopadie der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft 1896) . The See also:text of the commentary is given in See also:Migne, Patrologia raeca, cvi.; see also O . Gebhardt and A . See also:Harnack, Texte and Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Litt. i. pp . 36-46 (1882), and Vita Euthymii (See also:patriarch of See also:Constantinople, d . 917), ed . C. de Boor (1888); H .

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Wace, See also:Dictionary of See also:Christian See also:Biography, i.; C . See also:Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur (1897) ; G . Heinrici in See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopedie (1897) .

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