Aristotle at the Festival: The Orations of Theodore the Stoudite and Byzantine Logical Culture

Theodore plays a prominent role in studies of the "Aristotelian turn" of the second period of Iconoclasm. Scholars have shown how Theodore and Patriarch Nikephoros drew on the Aristotelian tradition to defend icon veneration, especially in polemical treatises like Theodore's Third Antirrheticus. This article turns to Theodore's festal homilies to show not only how they can be usefully read against the Antirrhetici for Theodore's Aristotelian defense of images, but also to show how Theodore's interest in the logical tradition extended beyond its application to theological polemic.