John Tzetzes (Greek: Ἰωάννης Τζέτζης, translit. Iōánnēs Tzétzēs; c. 1110, Constantinople – 1180, Constantinople) was a Byzantine poet and grammarian who...
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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"...
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Greek: Εὔφορβος Euphorbos) was a Trojan hero during the Trojan War. John Tzetzes describes Euphorbus as handsome man with 'the loveliest locks among the...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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mention a Belleros killed by Bellerophon are two Byzantine scholars, John Tzetzes and Eustathius of Thessalonica, who both seem to be following Bellerophon's...
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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...
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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...
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