Konstantinos Xiphilinos asked Psellos for a simple summary of the Aristotelian Organon; he was told that this was impossible
Unit appears in:
KONSTANTINOS X (1059-1067)
1060
Summary:
Psellos replied to Konstantinos Xiphilinos, who asked him for a simple summary of the Aristotelian Organon, using various rhetorical ways of informing him that he was asking for the impossible
Dates:
1060 (Uncertain)
Konstantinos Xiphilinos, droungarios of the vigla (
Konstantinos 2104
)
He had asked
Michael 61
for a simple summary of the Aristotelian Organon; he received a reply which used various rhetorical ways of informing him that he was asking for the impossible (:)
Psellos Letters (Sathas) 205.499-502 [Philosophica minora 14-17]
Michael Psellos (named Konstantinos till tonsure in 1054) (
Michael 61
)
He replied to
Konstantinos 2104
, who asked him for a simple summary of the Aristotelian Organon, using various rhetorical ways of informing him that he was asking for the impossible (:)
Psellos Letters (Sathas) 205.499-502
He replied to
Konstantinos 2104
that it was impossible to make a simple summary of the Aristotelian Organon
Psellos Letters (Sathas) 205.499-502