ABSTRACT
The Byzantine works on logic are scissors and paste works, and it is often possible to construct a pedigree explaining which predecessors each author owes his material to. In the ninth century East and West both start the return to learning and logic, reviving the ancient curriculum and the ancient notion that the highest can achieve in logic is to have a good understanding of Aristotle's Organon. The claim about the paucity of logicians can be substantiated by means of a few statistics. In Constantinople, the training in logic continued to be just one part in a general programme designed to produce an educated man; the attention devoted to the discipline could scarcely compete with that given to the mastery of rhetoric and Homeric, Demosthenian and Thucydidean Greek. The price paid for this was that the teachers became specialists whose knowledge of Virgil, Horace and Persius decreased with the increase in their logical skill.
