that out of all of them, the most effective way, one the enemy cannot match, is undermining the foundations..." Other works Ouranos was also a pious man, attempting to live a monkish life without disengaging from worldly affairs. As mentioned above, he was entrusted with the upkeep of the Great Lavra monastery, and in his youth he was apparently a friend of Saint Symeon Metaphrastes, on whose death he wrote a poem in lament. He authored two known hagiographical texts, the metaphrasis The Life of Symeon of the Wondrous Mountain and The Passion of Theodore the Recruit. References Citations Sources Further reading External links Byzantine generals Medieval Greek military writers 11th-century Byzantine military personnel 11th-century Byzantine writers Byzantine people of the Arab–Byzantine wars Byzantine people of the Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars Generals of Basil II Byzantine governors of Antioch Domestics of the Schools Magistroi 11th-century poets Ambassadors of the Byzantine Empire to the Abbasid Caliphate