Background
Leontius was born at Constantinople, flourished during the sixth century.
Leontius was born at Constantinople, flourished during the sixth century.
He is variously styled Byzantinus, Hierosolymitanus (as an inmate of the monastery of Street Saba near Jerusalem) and Scholasticus (the first "schoolman," as the introducer of the Aristotelian definitions into theology. According to others, he had been an advocate, a special meaning of the word scholasticus). He himself states that in his early years he belonged to a Nestorian community.
Nothing else is known of his life.
He is frequently confused with others of the same name, and it is uncertain which of the works bearing the name Leontius are really by him. Modern research has shown that Leontius of Byzantium is not the same as Leontius of Jerusalem.
Foreign a time, he was a member of the so-called "Scythian monks" community.
