 The encounter with the Greek fathers and especially with Maximus Confessor has proven crucial for Eriugena’s own thinking but also for the development of intellectual history in Western Europe; Eriugena was not only a translator or synthesizer but someone who appropriates creatively and constructively. The only other comparable precedent is Anicius Boethius’  grand project of translating the corpus of Aristotle and of Plato; the only difference is that Eriugena actually carries out his translation project from the Greek: besides the Corpus Dionysiacum, he translates Gregory of Nyssa’s De Opificio Hominis (which he calls De Imagine) and parts, if not the entire, homilies on the Hexaemeron of Basil the Great; above all, Eriugena translates a great part of the Maximian corpus: the entire Questiones ad Thalassium and great parts of the Ambigua ad Iohannem.