 Although he has recourse to Maximus Confessor hoping that he might offer some clarifications for understanding Pseudo-Dionysius, Maximus will offer Eriugena much more: a trove of ideas, methods, and philosophical vocabulary. Thus, Maximus allows him to expand and clarify the insights received from Dionysius and provides him with an eclectic philosophical and theological vocabulary: the Maximian oeuvre offers a palimpsest of Neo-Aristotelian and Neoplatonic philosophical terms and concepts along with a rich theological vocabulary which is mostly a synthesis of terms and concepts derived from Pseudo-Dionysius and the Cappadocian Fathers (Gregory Nazianzus, Gregory of Nyssa, and Basil the Great).