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    Explicit Sources of Tzetzes' Chiliades: Second Edition
    Explicit Sources of Tzetzes' Chiliades: Second Edition
    Explicit Sources of Tzetzes' Chiliades: Second Edition
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    Explicit Sources of Tzetzes' Chiliades: Second Edition

    By Miguel Carvalho Abrantes

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    This book presents a brief reference to all the explicit textual sources mentioned in John Tzetzes' Chiliades. By going through all the authors and works mentioned in that famous byzantine masterpiece, it is here attempted to trace where each reference comes from, and they are subsequently presented in association with their original author.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMiguel Carvalho Abrantes
    Release dateMay 1, 2017
    ISBN9788829540716
    Explicit Sources of Tzetzes' Chiliades: Second Edition

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      Explicit Sources of Tzetzes' Chiliades - Miguel Carvalho Abrantes

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      1. Introduction

      When I first started reading about Greek Mythology I found myself repeatedly stumbling upon the very same reference – Tzetzes’ Chiliades. It seemed that every single obscure myth was referenced there, and yet very few non-specialized authors actually seemed to go through the trouble of explaining what this particular work was all about. Instead, these references would just show up unannounced, be mentioned as a source for so-and-so, and then step back into the darkness. It was almost magical, this idea that there may have been some sort of hidden text that preserved countless mysteries for all of those who were interested in the subject of those ancient myths.

      Many years later I finally understood what this potential mystery was all about. In a nutshell, John Tzetzes was a 12th century Byzantine author who, in his personal letters, frequently mentioned ancient myths. Perhaps due to the fact that many of his references were too obscure even for his peers, he decided to write another book – to which he seems to have called his Book of Histories – where he explained what each reference was all about. This exact same work would later get to be known as the Chiliades, or thousands, based exclusively on the fact that one of its early editors, for unknown reasons, decided to split its content into several sequences of a thousand verses each.

      Having finished this small, and perhaps even too informal, personal introduction, we can now focus on more important matters – why is Tzetzes’ Chiliades such an important work? The answer is simpler than it could seem – less than 50 years after Tzetzes’ death the city of Constantinople was sacked during the Fourth Crusade, leading to the loss of many of the unusual works this author still had available to him. One is left wondering if he truly had read many of the works he mentions, or whether he was simply taking advantage of compilations and scholia for authors such as Anacreon, Stesichorus or Stasinus, but the information we now have make it very hard for us to be able to give a definite answer to questions such as these.

      That’s a problem this book will seek to fix. By attempting to track down all of Tzetzes’ explicit sources – that is, the ones he refers directly in his work, as opposed to the many pieces of information he provides without any attribution – we will try to present back to the reader a succinct reference to the literary corpus this author had available to him.

      For each author mentioned in Tzetzes’ Chiliades we will usually try to present the location(s) where the work is referenced, the name of the work, and simple information on whether we think the work was read directly by Tzetzes or accessed via some sort of indirect source, such as references in other works or information from scholia. If a work is extant today, we’ll mention it.

      The original work was consulted via T. Kiessling’s edition of 1826, but also through a recent (and often too imperfect) translation to English, with the line numbering being very similar between these two editions. When problems or inaccuracies were detected in either of those editions, they were fixed here.

      We hope, as always, that you enjoy reading this work as much as we enjoyed researching for and writing it.

      2. Explicit sources

      This chapter presents a listing of all the authors and works that are mentioned explicitly in Tzetzes’ Chiliades. However, we should stress that we were not looking for historical trivia, instead trying to focus on the works this

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