Theodore Metochites [SEP] occupation
Theodore Metochites
Theodore Metochites (; 1270–1332) was a Byzantine Greek statesman, author, gentleman philosopher, and patron of the arts. From c. 1305 to 1328 he held the position of personal adviser ("mesazōn") to emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos.
Life.
Metochites was born in Constantinople as the son of the archdeacon George Metochites, a fervent supporter of the union of the Orthodox and Catholic Churches. After the Council of Blachernae, his father was condemned and exiled, and Metochites seems to have spent his adolescence
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