In [unsophisticated monastic circles] Plato and Aristotle, with Plutarch not far behind, ranked with the prophets. You can see them painted in chapels on Mount Athos or on Orthodox churches in Moldavia. […] The Tree of Jesse on the outside wall of churches such as Sucevitsa often includes Thucydides, Plutarch, and even Porphyry.
Steven Runciman. The Last Byzantine Renaissance. Cambridge University Press (1970).
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