Joannes Scythopolita, a scholasticus in Palestine
Joannes (565) Scythopolita, a scholasticus
of Scythopolis in Palestine. Photius had read
a work of his in 12 books, Against Separatists
from the Church or Against Eutyches and Dioscorus,
written at the request of a patriarch
Julianus, probably Julian patriarch of Antioch,
A.D.
471–476 (Phot. Cod. 95, in Patr. Gk.
ciii. 339 B). John of Scythopolis
was also the author of
παραθέσεις
or commentaries on the Pseudo-Dionysius,
which had a wide circulation
for some centuries. Among the Syriac
MSS. in the Brit. Mus. there is a Syriac trans.
of Dionysius, with an introduction and notes
by Phocas bar-Sergius of Edessa, a writer of
the 8th cent. The notes are largely a translation of the
παραθέσεις
(Wright, Cat. Syr. MSS. pt. ii. p. 493).
Cf. Loofs, Leontius von
Byzanz. (1887).
[T.W.D.]