Chiliades

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Chiliades is a 12th-century Byzantine didactic poem by John Tzetzes, notable for its vast collection of mythological, historical, and literary anecdotes presented in thousands of verses.

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instanceOf Byzantine didactic poem
aimsTo display author’s erudition
educate readers in classical tradition
alternativeTitle Book of Histories NERFINISHED
associatedWith Byzantine humanism NERFINISHED
Komnenian period NERFINISHED
author John Tzetzes NERFINISHED
circulation manuscript tradition
contains historical anecdotes
literary anecdotes
mythological anecdotes
countryOfOrigin Byzantine Empire NERFINISHED
culturalContext Byzantine intellectual culture
didacticMode exemplary storytelling
didacticPurpose instruction in classical learning
moral instruction
genre didactic poetry
hasPart etymological notes
narrative digressions
quotations from earlier authors
scholarly explanations
influencedBy ancient Greek mythography
classical historiography
scholastic commentary tradition
literaryForm poem
literaryTradition Byzantine encyclopedic literature
narrativeMode first-person commentary
notableFor extensive mythographical material
preservation of otherwise lost sources
vast collection of exempla
originalLanguage Medieval Greek
preservesInformationAbout late antique scholarship
lost ancient authors
obscure mythological variants
structure thousands of verses
studiedIn Byzantine philology
classical philology
subjectMatter Greek literature
ancient history
classical mythology
timePeriod 12th century
typeOfWork erudite compilation
usedAsSourceBy Byzantine studies scholars
modern classicists
verseForm political verse
workOf John Tzetzes NERFINISHED

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