Psellos wrote a conventional monody on an ex-fellow-student who died on the way to visit him [beginning lost]
Unit appears in:
KONSTANTINOS X (1059-1067)
1060
Summary:
He is decribed as having all the virtues regularly included in a monody: intelligence, personal charm, zeal for learning. [However the loss of text at the beginning of the work leaves all this even more conventional and less well-defined than usual]
Dates:
1060 (Uncertain)
patrikios, fellow-student of Michael Psellos (
Anonymus 2610
)
He is decribed as having all the virtues regularly included in a monody: intelligence, personal charm, zeal for learning; however the loss of text at the beginning of the work leaves all this even less well-defined than is often the case
Psellos Monodies (Gautier) 135-140
Michael Psellos (named Konstantinos till tonsure in 1054) (
Michael 61
)
He wrote a monody on an anonymus patrikios, who had once been a fellow-student and had now become a close friend; he had died suddenly at a tragically early age
Psellos Monodies (Gautier) 135-143