John Tzetzes (Greek: Ἰωάννης Τζέτζης, translit. Iōánnēs Tzétzēs; c. 1110, Constantinople – 1180, Constantinople) was a Byzantine poet and grammarian who...

mentioned in passing in the works of Lycophron and the Byzantine scholar John Tzetzes. Cassiphone's name is a compound word that translates to "brother killer"...

Greek: Εὔφορβος Euphorbos) was a Trojan hero during the Trojan War. John Tzetzes describes Euphorbus as handsome man with 'the loveliest locks among the...

Briseis was imagined about two millennia later by the Byzantine poet John Tzetzes as: Meanwhile, in the account of Dares the Phrygian (probably the 5th...

as the skin of the great serpent, with its scales clearly delineated. John Tzetzes says that aegis was the skin of the monstrous giant Pallas whom Athena...

Hyginus, Scylla was the offspring of Typhon and Echidna. According to John Tzetzes and Servius' commentary on the Aeneid, Scylla was a beautiful naiad who...

Aeneid. Book VI. For an English translation see the Perseus Project. John Tzetzes on Lycophron, 511 Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2.21.7 Hesiod, Catalogue...

mention a Belleros killed by Bellerophon are two Byzantine scholars, John Tzetzes and Eustathius of Thessalonica, who both seem to be following Bellerophon's...

daughters of Atlas." Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 1.752 Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 157 Pausanias, 5.1.6 Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 149 & 219 The story of Pelops' chariot...

against the allies of Troy. However, according to the Byzantine poet John Tzetzes, he suggests that it was Palamedes that abducted Chryseis as well as...