Michael Psellos got to know Ioannes Mauropous & both his uncles

Summary:
Michael Psellos became acquainted with both uncles of Ioannes Mauropous, and, at the beginning of his teenage years, approached Ioannes himself and could witness to his vocation for learning. When the two young men met, each recognised something of himself in the other 
Dates:
1032 (Uncertain) 
Ioannes Mauropous, metropolitan of Euchaita (Ioannes 289)
  • When he met Michael 61, he as it were recognised in him his own soul and the other was no less close to him: they depended upon one another: in association with Ioannes 18 (:) ἀλλήλων ἐτυγχάνομεν ἐκκρεμεῖς Psellos: Chronographia VI 192.9-12
Michael Psellos (named Konstantinos till tonsure in 1054) (Michael 61)
  • He got to know both uncles of Ioannes 289, and, at the beginning of his teenage years, approached Ioannes himself and could witness to his vocation for learning (:) Psellos Orationes panegyricae XVII, 150-214