Wildly, passionately committed to ancient Greek scholarly learning, the Byzantine classicist John Tzetzes exemplifies classicists as they really are. … Read the post John Tzetzes: Byzantine classicist of classicists
In 12th-century Byzantium, Tzetzes allegorized Achilles in women’s clothing among spindles as maternal love contrasted with violence against men. … Read the post Achilles in women’s clothing: Tzetzes’s allegorical interpretation
The Byzantine scholar John Tzetzes’ Allegories of the Iliad is vital for recovering Homer’s effaced figure of Palamedes, a hero unlike Odysseus. … Read the post Homer effaced Palamedes to heroize word-twisting Odysseus