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    John Tzetzes (Greek: Ἰωάννης Τζέτζης, translit. Iōánnēs Tzétzēs; c. 1110, Constantinople – 1180, Constantinople) was a Byzantine poet and grammarian who...
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    is the root for the modern usage of the word museum. According to Johannes Tzetzes, the Mouseion was an institution founded by Ptolemy I Soter (c. 367...
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    served as a mediator of this art to the people, because according to Johannes Tzetzes, a Byzantine scholar of the 12th century. century, who still had extensive...
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    of "all sorts of snakes" along his back, while the Byzantine poet John Tzetzes (who probably based his account on Apollodorus) gives Cerberus fifty heads...
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    Abrantes, Miguel (30 April 2017). "2.16 Antiochus". Explicit Sources of Tzetzes' Chiliades (2nd ed.). CreateSpace. ISBN 978-1545584620. Retrieved 22 November...
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  • vii. 24. § 2, x. 10. § 3 Suda s.v. Scholiast ad Arist. Ran. 504 John Tzetzes, Chiliades vii. 154, viii. 191—-for the names Ἐλάδου and Γελάδου are unquestionably...
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    not desiring the land, decided to make his kingdom in Colchis. Ioannes Tzetzes adds Calypso, otherwise the daughter of Atlas, to the list of children...
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  • Lane Fox 2008:215 and note 23. Aventinus, Johannes / Riezler, Sigmund von / Lexer, Matthias von: Johannes Turmair's, genannt Aventinus, sämmtliche Werke...
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    Merkelbach-West, p. 68]. Smith, s.v. Orchomenus (3). Smith, s.v. Agamedes. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 1206 (pp. 957–962).[non-primary source needed] Ptolemy Hephaestion...
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    century BCE; but this relies on an account of Lycophron given by John Tzetzes in the 12th century. In the Talmudic and Midrashic literature, anagrams...
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