Eustathius of Thessalonica

Eustathius of Thessalonica (born 12th century, Constantinople—died c. 1194, Thessalonica, Greece) was a metropolitan (archbishop) of Thessalonica (c. 1175–94), humanist scholar, author, and Greek Orthodox reformer whose chronicles, oratory, and pedagogy show him to be one of medieval Byzantium’s foremost men of learning. Before his appointment as a deacon of Constantinople’s basilica of Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom) and teacher of rhetoric in the Patriarchal school, Eustathius was apparently a monk in the cloister of St....