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Mazaris

Mazaris’s Journey to Hades is a Byzantine literary work probably written early in the fifteenth century. Set between January 1414 and October 1415, it apparently includes many sarcastic contemporary references. Mazaris’s Journey to Hades is written in Attic Greek with foreign loan words, unusual expressions, and pervasive puns.

sickness results not from being a doctor, but from marriage

In Mazaris’s Journey to Hades, Mazaris explained to a fellow doctor that his sickness and poverty wasn’t from occupational toubles, but from his marriage. … Read the post sickness results not from being a doctor, but from marriage

Journey to Hades: Byzantine anti-men bias in divorce rulings

Mazaris’ Journey to Hades describes stairs of seventy-two steps atop which adulterous wives taunted their husbands, apparently threatening divorce & ruin. … Read the post Journey to Hades: Byzantine anti-men bias in divorce rulings

fine Byzantine invective: Mazaris to his friend Holobolos in Hades

In Mazaris’s Journey to Hades, Mazaris with highly literary invective harshly cursed his friend Holobolos for advising him to move to the Peloponnese. … Read the post fine Byzantine invective: Mazaris to his friend Holobolos in Hades