Complex sentence: The collections of the emperors Julian, Libanios, and Synesius, and the work of the Cappadocian Fathers were particularly notable, while letters of Aristotle, Plato and the Pauline Epistles of the New Testament were influential in the development of the genre.
Split into simpler sentences: The collections of the emperors Julian, Libanios, and Synesius, and the work of the Cappadocian Fathers were particularly notable. The letters of Aristotle and Plato, and the Pauline Epistles of the New Testament were influential in the development of the genre.