Osio de Córdoba: The Forgotten Sage of the Empire

Abstract

In recent years, the recovery of great historical figures linked to cities has acquired great importance, as a revaluation of their historical and cultural legacies. In the case of the city of Córdoba, a city of capital importance for the cultural development of Spain and Europe, it also stands out for the large number of scholars and intellectuals that it has housed within its walls: Seneca, Maimonides, Averroes… within this select group of authors, stands out for its socio-political importance, in the years of the reign of Constantine I as Emperor of Rome, Osio de Córdoba. Bishop of the homonymous diocese, who will be the emperor’s most trusted advisor, who will preside over councils and whose life will be marked by the great philosophical-theological confrontations of the moment in which he has to live.