Editing Michael Psellos (section)

==Pseudo-Psellos<!--;Michael Psellos the Elder' and 'Pseudo-Psellos' redirect here-->==
It was once thought that there was another Byzantine writer of the same name, '''Michael Psellos the Elder'''<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA--> (now also called '''Pseudo-Psellos'''<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA-->), who lived on the island of [[Andros]] in the 9th century, and who was a pupil of [[Photios I of Constantinople|Photius]] and teacher of emperor [[Leo VI the Wise]]. Michael Psellos was also called "the younger" by some authors. This belief was based on an entry in a medieval chronicle, the {{lang|grc|Σύνοψις Κεδρηνοῦ-Σκυλίτση}}, which mentions the name in that context. It is now believed that the inclusion of the name Psellos in this chronicle was the mistake of an ignorant copyist at a later time, and that no "Michael Psellos the elder" existed.<ref name="reflemerle">Paul Lemerle: ''Le premier humanisme byzantin: Notes et remarques sur enseignement et culture à Byzance des origines au Xe siècle.'' Paris 1971. (ch. 6)</ref> The term "Pseudo-Psellos" is also used in modern scholarship to describe the authorship of several later works that are believed to have been falsely ascribed to Psellos in Byzantine times.