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Salt in the Holy Water: Plutarch’s Quaestiones Naturales in Michael Psellus’ De omnifaria doctrina
Classical Philology, 2012This chapter focuses primarily on the scientific content of the first redaction, which deals with natural problems, and particularly on the extracts from Plutarch's (generally neglected) Quaestiones Naturales . It demonstrates how ancient science (as an integral part of philosophy) was approached in the Byzantine era.
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When did Michael Psellus die? The evidence of the Dioptra
Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 2003Abstract The last years of Michael Psellos' life are clouded in obscurity. He was certainly active at the court of his student Michael VII (1071–1078), but when Nikephoritzes, the logothetes tou dromou, became imperial advisor (Attaleiates, Historia, 200,12ff) he practically disappeared from the scene.
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On Pythagoreanism V–VII: The Excerpts in Michael Psellus
1990Abstract It is shown that extracts from books V, VI, and VII of Iamblichus's work On Pythagoreanism are to be found in the work of the Byzantine philosopher Michael Psellos. The contents of these lost books are reconstructed from Psellos's extracts: they concern number as applied in physics, in ethics, and in metaphysics.
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