I can't seem to reply to your comment below. Yes they produced no new commentaries... Byzantiums were extremely conservative, they disdained innovation, so why

I can't seem to reply to your comment below. Yes they produced no new commentaries... Byzantiums were extremely conservative, they disdained innovation, so why would they write new commentaries where there were already several hundred years worth of commentaries? We have also lost a lot of Byzantium primary sources but it is obvious from reading the remaining primary sources that knowledge of Aristotle was assumed. It is not stated anywhere that Aristotle was "forgotten", in all the primary documents including Neoplatonic Aristotle is frequently mentioned. Where do you get the idea that Byzantium and Islam were in philosophic discourse? Also see this article: https://books.google.com/books?id=uU8Sgwge6NsC&pg=PA15&lpg=PA15&dq=arethas+letters+to+niketas+aristotle&source=bl&ots=Vu-Nmyqfhn&sig=RZGXnCT7328QY7GdnxwnLpsQK5s&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjB8NHn4MrXAhWFWRoKHTsnDKEQ6AEINTAF#v=onepage&q=arethas%20letters%20to%20niketas%20aristotle&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=uU8Sgwge6NsC&pg=PA15&lpg=P...