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    John Tzetzes was a 12th century Byzantine scholar and poet who preserved valuable information from ancient Greek literature and scholarship. He served briefly as secretary to a provincial governor before earning a living through teaching and writing. Though his large literary and scholarly output contained inaccuracies due to relying on memory without access to books, it preserved information unavailable elsewhere. His most important work was the Chiliades, a long poem of over 1,000 lines containing literary, historical, antiquarian, and mythological miscellanies intended as a commentary on his own letters. It referenced over 200 authors though it displayed an unnecessary amount of learning.

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    John Tzetzes was a 12th century Byzantine scholar and poet who preserved valuable information from ancient Greek literature and scholarship. He served briefly as secretary to a provincial governor before earning a living through teaching and writing. Though his large literary and scholarly output contained inaccuracies due to relying on memory without access to books, it preserved information unavailable elsewhere. His most important work was the Chiliades, a long poem of over 1,000 lines containing literary, historical, antiquarian, and mythological miscellanies intended as a commentary on his own letters. It referenced over 200 authors though it displayed an unnecessary amount of learning.

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    John Tzetzes was a 12th century Byzantine scholar and poet who preserved valuable information from ancient Greek literature and scholarship. He served briefly as secretary to a provincial governor before earning a living through teaching and writing. Though his large literary and scholarly output contained inaccuracies due to relying on memory without access to books, it preserved information unavailable elsewhere. His most important work was the Chiliades, a long poem of over 1,000 lines containing literary, historical, antiquarian, and mythological miscellanies intended as a commentary on his own letters. It referenced over 200 authors though it displayed an unnecessary amount of learning.

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    Written by The Editors of Encyclopdia Britannica
    John Tzetzes, (born c. 1110died after 1180) By!antine didactic poet and scholar
    "ho preser#ed $%ch #al%able infor$ation fro$ ancient &ree' literat%re and
    scholarship in "hich he "as "idely read(
    T!et!es "as for a ti$e secretary to a pro#incial )o#ernor then earned a $ea)re li#in)
    by teachin) and "ritin)( *e has been described as the perfect speci$en of the By!antine
    pedant( *is literary and scholarly o%tp%t "as enor$o%s altho%)h it contained $any
    inacc%racies$ostly beca%se he "as +%otin) fro$ $e$ory lac'in) boo's "hich he
    said his po#erty forced hi$ to do "itho%t(
    ,f his n%$ero%s and #aried "or's the $ost i$portant is the Chiliades (-Tho%sands.)(
    Also 'no"n as the Book of Histories, the "or' is a lon) poe$ ($ore than 1/000 lines
    of 10 syllables) containin) literary historical anti+%arian and $ytholo)ical
    $iscellanies intended to ser#e as a co$$entary on T!et!es1 o"n letters "hich are
    addressed to friends and fa$o%s conte$poraries as "ell as to fictitio%s persons( Tho%)h
    the "hole "or' s%ffers fro$ an %nnecessary display of learnin) the total n%$ber of
    a%thors +%oted bein) $ore than 200 it contains $%ch infor$ation %na#ailable
    else"here( Another "or' is Allegoriai on the Iliad and the Odyssey, t"o lon) didactic
    poe$s containin) interpretations of *o$eric theolo)y( 3nterspersed in his learned
    co$$entaries are #i)nettes of e#eryday life in 4onstantinople

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