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# iooo Cambridge University Press i6 Augustine in Byzantium by JOSEF LO $ SSL A s Cornelius Mayer wrote recently, the massive output of literature on Augustine (c. o,ooo extant titles) cannot hide the fact that much scholarly work remains to be done on the enormous variety and scope of Augustines inuence ." One area of which this is particularly true is Augustines impact on Byzantine theology. While Augustines own use of Greek patristic literature and contacts with the Greek patristic world have been investigated for some time and in some detail, his inuence on Greek authors especially during the later Byzantine era has been sadly neglected. However, recent research on such authors as Maximos Planudes (c. 1i1o), Gregory Palamas (1i61) and Prochoros Kydones (c. 1c. 1o) has done something to remedy that situation. This paper seeks to present a summary of that development and provide a context for further study. Augustines interest and impact in the east during his lifetime Augustines relationship to Greek may seem somewhat ambiguous. Partly, the ambiguity is of his own making. While he did little to hide the fact that he had never set foot in a Greek-speaking country and, as a boy, attended without much benet the lessons of his Greek grammaticus # he ACOlActa conciliorum oecumenicorum; ALlC. Mayer, Augustinus-Lexikon, i, Basle 1; BZlByzantinische Zeitschrift ; JOBlJahrbuch der oWsterreichischen Byzantinistik; Plan., Aug. Triad. l0 ! ' ! ! ! , 1 0 4 ! ! 0 ' / ! ! ! / ! . 0 ! , / ' ' ' ! , ! , editio princeps, ed. ! ! , 0 ! ! , Gianpaolo Rigotti, Athens 1; RE T Aug. lRevue des E T tudes Augustiniennes " AL i, p. xiii. # Augustinus, Confessiones i. 1. io, CCL xxvii. 11, line 16; ep. cxx. i. 1o, CSEL xxxiv\ii. 1i, lines ii; De trinitate ix. 6. 1o, CCL 1. oi, lines i8. See also the survey in P. Courcelle, Late Latin writers and their Greek sources, Cambridge, Mass. 16, 16 (on language), 16io8 (on the inuence of pagan and patristic Greek literature).