Michael Psellos
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
(Redirected from Michael Psellus)
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
Michael Psellos or Psellus (Greek: Μιχαήλ Ψελλός, Mikhaēl Psellos) was a Byzantine writer, philosopher, politician, and historian. He was born in 1017 or 1018, and died some time after 1078.
[edit]
References in literature
In the sidenotes of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, there is a reference to "the Platonic Constantinopolitan, Michael Psellus" as an authority on "the invisible inhabitants of this planet, neither departed souls nor angels".
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Michael Psellos" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
