id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6524 Arethas of Caesarea - Wikipedia .html text/html 1330 204 62 He became Deacon of Patrea around 900 and was made Archbishop of Caesarea by Nikolas of Constantinople in 903.[3] He was deeply involved in court politics and was a principal actor in the controversy over the scandal created when Emperor Leo VI attempted to marry a fourth time after his first three wives had died and left him without an heir.[4] Despite Arethas' fame as a scholar, Jenkins thinks little of him as a person. To his interest in the earliest Christian literature, caught perhaps from the above-named Andrew, we owe the Arethas Codex, through which the texts of almost all of the ante-Nicene Greek Christian apologists have, in a great measure, reached us.[6] This unique codex was copied by several Italian scribes in the 11th to 14th centuries[7] and eventually taken to Paris, probably acquired in the time of François I.[8] It was assigned number 2271 in the inventory of 1682[9] and Parisinus graecus 451 in the current numbering. Up through the 19th century, scholars believed there to be an earlier Arethas, also an archbishop of Caesarea, who had authored the works on the Apocalypse, around the year 540. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6524.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6524.txt