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Joannes Tzetzes 1. JOANNES (*)Iwa/nnhs *Tze/tzhs), a Greek grammarian of Constantinople. The period when he flourished may be gathered from his own statement, that he wrote one hundred years after Michael Psellus (Chil. 11.719), and from the fact that he dedicated his Homeric Allegories to Irene Augusta, the wife of Manuel Comnenus. who died A. D. 11 58. The father of Joannes Tzetzes was Michael Tzetzes. His another's name was Endocia (Chil. 5.611). He was himself named after his paternal grandfather, a native of Byzantium. a man of some wealth, who, though not a learned man, showed great respect for scholars (ib. 615). His maternal grandmother was of a Basque or Iberian family. The earlier part of his life he spent with his brother Isaac at home, where they received various wholesome precepts from their father, urging them to prefer learning to riches, power, or precedence. (Chil. 3.157, 4.566, &c.) At the age of fifteen he was placed under the instruction of tutors, who not only