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TZETZES ON THUCYDIDES

TZETZES ON THUCYDIDES I.ABTEILUNG TZETZES ON THUCYDIDES B. B A L D W I N / C A L G A R Y " , , . , . , ' , . ; * 3 , , , , , . This metrical scholium1 on Thucydides is in its violent language typical both of Tzetzes and of Byzantine polemic in general.2 At the level of low comedy, all students of Thucydides should find it diverting. 3 Analysis will show it to be a characteristical]y Byzantine melange of orthodox critical opinion decked out in sometimes odcl language. In a recent and rare4 discussion, R. Scott5 thinks that Tzetzes may have got his complaints from Dionysius of Halicarnassus. That Dionysius is one of Tzetzes' sources can One of many; others are on (parenthetic references are by the pages of Hude's edition of the scholia on Thucydides): l. 113 (83); i. 231 (89-90); 2. 102 (161-162); 3. 61 (201-202); 4. 8 (230); 5. 12 (293); 5. 14 (294); 5. 19 (298); 6. 2 (329); 6. 4 (33°)· Other scholia in iambic or political verse, carrying no name but evidently Tzetzean, can be found in Hude 50-1, 69, 98, 146, 163, 164, 166, 175, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Byzantinische Zeitschrift de Gruyter

TZETZES ON THUCYDIDES

BALDWIN, B.
Byzantinische Zeitschrift , Volume 75 (2) – Jan 1, 1982
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10.1515/byzs.1982.75.2.313
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I.ABTEILUNG TZETZES ON THUCYDIDES B. B A L D W I N / C A L G A R Y " , , . , . , ' , . ; * 3 , , , , , . This metrical scholium1 on Thucydides is in its violent language typical both of Tzetzes and of Byzantine polemic in general.2 At the level of low comedy, all students of Thucydides should find it diverting. 3 Analysis will show it to be a characteristical]y Byzantine melange of orthodox critical opinion decked out in sometimes odcl language. In a recent and rare4 discussion, R. Scott5 thinks that Tzetzes may have got his complaints from Dionysius of Halicarnassus. That Dionysius is one of Tzetzes' sources can One of many; others are on (parenthetic references are by the pages of Hude's edition of the scholia on Thucydides): l. 113 (83); i. 231 (89-90); 2. 102 (161-162); 3. 61 (201-202); 4. 8 (230); 5. 12 (293); 5. 14 (294); 5. 19 (298); 6. 2 (329); 6. 4 (33°)· Other scholia in iambic or political verse, carrying no name but evidently Tzetzean, can be found in Hude 50-1, 69, 98, 146, 163, 164, 166, 175,

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Byzantinische Zeitschrift – de Gruyter

Published: Jan 1, 1982

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