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    of Tzetzes Chiliades (2 ed.). Createspace. ISBN 978-1-5455-8462-0. OCLC 1245343778. (in French) Gautier, Paul (1970), La curieuse ascendance de Jean Tzetzes...
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    Jean François Boissonade de Fontarabie (12 August 1774 – 8 September 1857) was a French classical scholar. He was born in Paris. In 1792 he entered the...
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    Tsetse fly (redirect from Tzetze)
    US: /ˈtsiːtsi/ TSEET-see or UK: /ˈtsɛtsə/ TSET-sə) (sometimes spelled tzetze; also known as tik-tik flies) are large, biting flies that inhabit much...
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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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    Chronography 5.104 Tzetzes, Homeric Allegories Prologue 587 Tzetzes on Lycophron, 431 Pausanias, 5.25.9 Homer, Odyssey 13.260 ff. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 1222...
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    adopted and raised by Leda and Tyndareus. According to the Byzantine poet Tzetzes, Bacchylides had Nemesis as the mother of the Telchines by Tartarus. The...
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    Etymological Dictionary of Greek, Brill, 2009, p. 1012. Hyginus, Fabulae 1, 2 Tzetzes, Chiliades 9.20 line 464, 469 & 477 Apollodorus, Epitome 1.20 Gaius Julius...
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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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    Arktos (ἄρκτος), the Bear, by Greeks, and Ursa Minor. According to John Tzetzes, Charon of Lampsacus wrote that Callisto's son Arcas had been fathered...
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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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    among the deities of the sea, learning from them the art of prophecy. John Tzetzes adds to the above story that Glaucus became "immortal, but not immune to...
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  • Egyptian one. Apollodorus, 2.1.4 Malalas, 2.30 Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 1206 Apollodorus, 2.1.5 Tzetzes, Chiliades 7.37, p. 368-369 Gantz, p. 208; Pherecydes...
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    Tzetzes, Chiliades or Book of Histories, Concerning Heracles 2.4 (Story 36) 320-340 (trans. Untila et al.) (Greco-Byzantine history C12 AD) Tzetzes,...
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    philosophers and mythographers. Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre, Charles-Joseph Natoire, Guillaume II Coustou, Pierre Julien, Jean-Baptiste Regnault and others...
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    19th Century". litteraturbanken.se. Gleerups. "The myth of Narcissus". Tzetzes, John. "Chiliades, 1.9". lines 235–238. Keys, David (May 2004). "Ancient...
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    Malalas, Chronography 5.104 Dares Phrygius, 13 Fragments of the Cypria Tzetzes on Lycophron, 133; Eustathius on Homer, p. 1187 Hyginus, Fabulae 114 Pausanias...
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    De Natura Deorum 48.4 Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 4.60.4 Tzetzes, Chiliades 4.361 David Marshall Lang. The Georgians. p. 59. Frederick A...
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    893 (pp. 354, 355); so too Nonnus, Dionysiaca 13.313–5 (pp. 452, 453); Tzetzes, Chiliades, 1.14, line 338 & 348. Etymologicum Magnum, 197.59 (p. 179)...
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    Pasiphaë, Perses, and in some versions the Corinthian king Aloeus. Ioannes Tzetzes adds Calypso, otherwise the daughter of Atlas, to the list of children...
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    Aristaeus. Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 2. 498 Tzetzes on Lycophron, 77 Tzetzes on Lycophron 480; Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica...
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  • Antiquitates Romanae 1.50.3. Dictys Cretensis, Trojan War Chronicle 3.5 & 4.22 Tzetzes on Lycophron, 1298 Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Arisbe Dictys Cretensis...
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    hunters, and other sometimes wore the low, broad-rimmed hit (petasos) John Tzetzes, On Lycophron, noted by Karl Kerenyi's The Heroes of the Greeks, 1959:107...
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    2nd-century AD satirist Lucian. The 12th-century Byzantine writer John Tzetzes says that Cetus swallows Perseus, who kills the monster by hacking his...
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    ichthyocentaur is of late coinage, attributable to the Byzantine writer John Tzetzes in the 12th century. They are also referred as sea-centaur. "Ichthyocentaur"...
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    became a tutor to Heracles.[citation needed] This is also mentioned by John Tzetzes, a medieval historian.[citation needed] In general, the particular sphere...
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    Tzetzes, Chiliades 1.12 line 306 Gantz, p. 725; Pindar, Pythian 4.176–7. Gantz, p. 725; BNJ 12 F6a = [Scholia on Pindar's Pythian, 4.313a]. Tzetzes,...
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    viewer's perspective.[citation needed] The ancient historians Pliny and Tzetzes both record a sculpture competition between Alcamenes and Phidias to create...
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    history 4th AD) Tzetzes, Chiliades or Book of Histories 8.57. 621 (trans. Untila et al.) (Greco-Byzantine history C12th AD) Tzetzes, Chiliades or Book...
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    her poetry appears to have disappeared, and by the 12th century, John Tzetzes could write that "the passage of time has destroyed Sappho and her works"...
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    classical themes have been reinterpreted by dramatists Jean Anouilh, Jean Cocteau, and Jean Giraudoux in France, Eugene O'Neill in America, and T. S...
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