![]() ![]() ![]() His family hailed from Nicomedia and, according to his own testimony, counted members of the consular and patrician elite among its ancestors. Michael Psellos was probably born in Constantinople. The main sources of information about Psellos' life are his own works, which contain extensive autobiographical passages. He served as a high ranking advisor to several Byzantine emperors and was instrumental in the re-positioning of power of those emperors. He was born in 1017 or 1018, and is believed to have died in 1078, although it has also been maintained that he remained alive until 1096. Michaḗl Psellós, Byzantine Greek: ) was a Byzantine Greek monk, savant, writer, philosopher, imperial courtier, historian and music theorist. Michael Psellos or Psellus ( Greek: Μιχαὴλ Ψελλός, translit. ![]() John Italus, Michael Attaleiates, Michael VII Doukas, Constantine Leichoudes ![]()
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