GIOVANNI di SCITOPOLI. — Bishop of the sixth century. The first commentator on the pseudo-Areopagite works. Around 530 he wrote against Severus of Antioch and another work against Eutyches and Dioscurus, according to the testimony of Photius (Bibl., cod. 95; PG, 103, col. 340 ff.).
BIBL.: On G. di Scitopoli V. Fr. Loofs, Leontius von Byzanz., Leipzig 1887, p. 269 ff.; U. V. BALDASSARRE, Das Scholtenwerk des
Johannes von Scythopolis, in Scholastik, 5 (1940), p. 16 ff.; Glosse di G. by Anastasius the Librarian (unpublished), V. A. Sigmund, Die Überlieferung der griech. christl. Literatur in der latein. Kirche, Munich 1949, p. 191. Erik Peterson