Thread 17939122

>Tutored Emperors
>Somehow lived to 100
>Saved countless works of Greek philosophy
>Practiced Greek Paganism… in the Middle Ages
>Triggered the Renaissance
>Lived just long enough to see Constantinople fall
How was this guy real?

>>17939122 (OP)
>Practiced Greek Paganism… in the Middle Ages
this part is an exaggeration protruding into lie territory.

>>17939186
>As revealed in his last literary work, the Nomoi or Book of Laws, which he circulated only among close friends, he rejected Christianity in favour of a return to the worship of the classical Hellenic gods, mixed with ancient wisdom based on Zoroaster and the Magi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemistos_Plethon

Key point is he wasn't practicing "real" Greek paganism as you might have found in ancient times, basically what he was believing in a hodgepodge that he would have access in disjointed sources in his time
Still paganism?
Yes.
THE paganism?
No.

>>17939122 (OP)
One day the modern world will view Gemistos Plethon as its Jesus. The bringer of light into a world full of darkness.

>>17939235
so basically he was reconstructed paganism before it was cool.

>>17939122 (OP)
Probably the first Greek Nationalist.

>>17939295
Embarrassing.

>>17939197
>last literary work
>circulated only among close friends,
Hardly reliable source. There are dozens of ways to fake something like that
>>17939256
No, that's really not how it works with long-dead historical figures

>>17939335
Why fake something like that? For slander you would just make him a Satanist.

>>17939426
he probably expressed sympathies for antique paganism, but not for satanism. so it was easier to claim he wanted to return to one and not to the other.
but I don't care whether he wanted to return to monkey or not. OP claimed he PRACTICED paganism, and that's just a lie.