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(r. 1118–43) in 1136. Pantokrator was a medical centre, at which Italicus lectured and explained physicians

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(460–370 BC) and

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(129–200), and illustrated diseases through patient cases. His pupil

Theodore Prodromos Theodore Prodromos or Prodromus (; ), probably also the same person as the so-called Ptochoprodromos (Πτωχοπρόδρομος "Poor Prodromos"), was a Byzantine Greek writer, well known for his prose and poetry. Biography Very little is kno ...

described

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. Between 1147 and 1166 he served as the Archbishop of Philippopolis. He wrote a

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on the death of Andronikos, son of Alexios I. He delivered '' basilikoi logoi'' (encomia) to the emperors John II and

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