About Michael Italikos
Lived 1090 – 1157 (aged 66–67). Michael Italikos was a Byzantine literary scholar, orator, physician, writer, historian and metropolitan.
Michael Italikos (also Michael Italicus; ; c. 1090 – c. 1157) was a Byzantine Eastern Orthodox cleric (metropolitan of Philippopolis) and medical instructor (didaskalos iatron) at the Pantokrator Hospital that had been established by Emperor John II Komnenos (r. 1118–43) in 1136. Pantokrator was a medical centre, at which Italicus lectured and explained physicians Hippocrates (460–370 BC) and Galen (129–200), and illustrated diseases through patient cases.
He wrote a monody on the death of Andronikos, son of Alexios I. He delivered basilikoi logoi (encomia) to the emperors John II and Manuel I.
His pupil Theodore Prodromos described smallpox.
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Who was Michael Italikos?
Byzantine literary
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Michael Italikos was born in 1090.
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Michael Italikos died in 1157 in Constantinople, Eastern Roman Empire.
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Michael Italikos was a literary scholar, orator, physician, writer, historian and metropolitan.
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Michael Italikos was Byzantine.
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