John Tzetzes (Greek: Ἰωάννης Τζέτζης, romanized: Iōánnēs Tzétzēs; c. 1110, Constantinople – 1180, Constantinople) was a Byzantine poet and grammarian who lived at Constantinople in the 12th century. He is known for making significant contributions in preserving much valuable information from ancient Greek literature and scholarship. Of his numerous works, the most important one is the Book of Histories, also known as Chiliades ('Thousands'). The work is a long poem containing knowledge that is unavailable elsewhere and serves as commentary on Tzetzes's own letters. Two of his other important works are the Allegoriai on the Iliad and the Odyssey, which are long didactic poems containing interpretations of Homeric theology. (From Wikipedia)
More about John Tzetzes: Associated author:Books about John Tzetzes -- Books by John Tzetzes
Books about John Tzetzes:
3 additional books about John Tzetzes in the extended shelves:
![[X-Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/infouc.gif)
Jean Tzetzes et ses etudes sur Homere (Imp. de l'Academie, 1901), by M. V. Duchataux (page images at HathiTrust)- De Ioannis Tzetzae historiarum fontibus quaestiones selectae. (Ex officina H. Fiencke, 1886), by Christian Harder (page images at HathiTrust)
- De Tzetzarum nomine, vitis, scriptis. Caput 1-6. (B.G. Teubner, 1880), by Georg Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
Books by John Tzetzes:
![[Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/info.gif)
Tzetzes, John, active 12th century: Antehomerica, Homerica et Posthomerica, ex Recensione Immanuelis Bekkeri, Accedunt Excerpta ex Chrestomathia Procli (in Greek with Latin notes; Berlin: Imp. G. Reimeri, 1816), ed. by Immanuel Bekker (page images at HathiTrust)
Additional books by John Tzetzes in the extended shelves:
- Tzetzes, John, active 12th century: [Isaakiou kai Iōannou tou Tzetzou Scholia eis Lykophrona] (Sumtibus F.C.G. Vogelii, 1811), also by Isaac Tzetzes, Christian Gottfried Müller, Joseph Juste Scaliger, and Lycophron (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tzetzes, John, active 12th century: Alexandra, sive Cassandra: poema ... ([I. Oporini, 1546), also by Lycophron, Paulus Lacisius, and Isaac Tzetzes (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tzetzes, John, active 12th century: Antehomerica, Homerica et posthomerica. (In Libraria Weidmannia, 1793), also by Friedrich Jacobs (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tzetzes, John, active 12th century: Biblion Istorikēs tēs dia stichōn politikōn alpha de kaloumenēs = Historiarum variarum chiliades. Graece. Textum ad fidem duorum codicum monacensium recognovit, brevi adnotatione et indicibus instruxit (sumptibus Fr. Chr. Guil. Vogelii, 1826), also by Gottlieb Kiessling (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tzetzes, John, active 12th century: Hēsiodou poiēmata = Hesiodi carmina. Apollonii Argonautica. Musaei Carmen de Herone et Leandro. Coluthi Raptus Helenae. Quinti Posthomerica. Tryphiodori Excidium Ilii. Tzetzae Antehomerica &c. (Firmin Didot, 1840), also by Hesiod, Tryphiodorus, Quintus Smyrnaeus, of Lycopolis Colluthus, Grammaticus Musaeus, Apollonius Rhodius, Fr. Dübner, and F. S. Lehrs (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tzetzes, John, active 12th century: In Lycophronis Cassandram annotationes Gulielmi Canteri Vltraiectini ([Geneva] : Excudebat Paulus Stephanus, anno M.DCI. [1601], 1601), also by Lycophron, Thomas James Mathias, Alexander Crawford Lindsay Crawford, E. A. Sanford, William Augustus White, J. Wells, Myles Birket Foster, John Milton, Paul Estienne, Willem Canter, and Isaac Tzetzes (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tzetzes, John, active 12th century: Ioannis Tzetzae Historiarum variarum Chiliades. Graece, textum ad fidem duorum codicum monacensium recognovit (C.G. Vogelii, 1826) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tzetzes, John, active 12th century: Joannis Tzetzae Epistolae. (F. Fues, 1851), also by Theodor Pressel (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tzetzes, John, active 12th century: Lycophronis Chalcidensis Alexandra, obscurum poema. Cum Græco Isacii, seu potius Joannis, Tzetzæ commentario. Versiones, variantes lectiones, emendationes, adnotationes, & indices necessarios adjecit Joannes Potterus ... (e theatro Sheldoniano, impensis Joannis Oweni, 1702), also by Lycophron, Richard Wright, John Potter, Johannes van Meurs, Willem Canter, Joseph Juste Scaliger, and Isaac Tzetzes (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tzetzes, John, active 12th century: Quinti Smyrnaei, Tryphiodori, Ioannis Tzetzae, et Coluthi Carmina de rebus troianis (Sumtibus et typis C. Tauchnitii, 1829), also by Quintus Smyrnaeus, of Lycopolis Colluthus, and Tryphiodorus (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tzetzes, John, active 12th century: Tzetzae Allegoriae Iliadis (Apud Dumont, 1851), also by Michael Psellus and Jean François Boissonade (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tzetzes, John, active 12th century: Über den politischen vers der mittelgriechen (C. Gerstenberg, 1828), also by Karl Ludwig Struve (page images at HathiTrust)
Find more by John Tzetzes at your library, or elsewhere.