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Michael Glycas

Byzantine historian, theologian, mathematician, astronomer, and poet · Writers · Lived 1125 to 1204 · aged 79

Michael Glykas or Glycas was a 12th-century Byzantine historian, theologian, mathematician, astronomer and poet. He was probably from Corfu and lived in Constantinople. He was a critic of Manuel I Komnenos, and was imprisoned and blinded due to his participation in a conspiracy against the emperor.

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He is also identified by modern scholarship with Michael Sikidites, who was condemned as a heresiarch in 1200.

Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1125 to 1204 · aged 79