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    Tsetse fly (redirect from Tzetze)
    US: /ˈtsiːtsi/ TSEET-see or UK: /ˈtsɛtsə/ TSET-sə) (sometimes spelled tzetze; also known as tik-tik flies) are large, biting flies that inhabit much...
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    John Tzetzes (‹See Tfd›Greek: Ἰωάννης Τζέτζης, translit. Iōánnēs Tzétzēs; c. 1110, Constantinople – 1180, Constantinople) was a Byzantine poet and grammarian...
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    a stick zither from Sub-Saharan Africa. It is also known by the names tzetze and dzendze, and, in Madagascar, is called jejy voatavo. It has one or two...
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    216; Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 653; Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.4; Fasti 6.132; Hyginus, Fabulae 14 Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.4 Hesiod, Theogony 265–267; Tzetzes ad Lycophron...
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    and Scholia on Tzetzes' Exegesis in Iliadem 1.122 (citing "Hesiod" = Hesiod Catalogue of Women fr. 137c Most). For Cleolla, see Tzetzes, Exegesis in Iliadem...
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    and Scholia on Tzetzes' Exegesis in Iliadem 1.122 (citing "Hesiod" = Hesiod Catalogue of Women fr. 137c Most). For Cleolla, see Tzetzes, Exegesis in Iliadem...
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    from Tzetzes on Hesiod, 23; Tzetzes on Hesiod, Works and Days 6 Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.53, Epicharmis, Tzetzes on Hes. 23 Epicharmis, Tzetzes on Hes...
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    Calypso in his list of Nereids, the daughters of Nereus and Doris. John Tzetzes makes her a daughter of Helios and the Oceanid nymph Perse, the parents...
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    Valerius Flaccus, 1.297 Apollodorus, 1.9.16; Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 175 & 872 Scholia ad Homer, Odyssey 12.69; Tzetzes, Chiliades 6.979 Scholia ad Apollonius...
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  • ad Apollonius Rhodius, 1.172; Apollodorus, 1.9.16 Hyginus, Fabulae 14 Tzetzes, Chiliades 4.361 Pausanias, 5.1.9 Apollodorus, 2.88 Pausanias, 5.1.11....
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    13 Hyginus, Fabulae 14 Apollodorus, 1.9.16; Tzetzes as Lycophron, 175 & 872 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 38; Tzetzes, Chiliades 6.979; Scholia ad Homer, Odyssey...
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  • the latter. Orphic Argonautica 187 Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.56 Tzetzes, Posthomerica 176 Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica translated by Robert...
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    Briseis was imagined about two millennia later by the Byzantine poet John Tzetzes as: Meanwhile, in the account of Dares the Phrygian (probably the 5th century...
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    Dionysiaca 13.309; Tzetzes, Chiliades, 1.14, line 338 & 348 Apollodorus, Epitome 7.18; Hyginus, Fabulae Preface, 125 & 141; Tzetzes, Chiliades, 1.14, line...
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  • Hellenistic poet Lycophron and the 12th-century Byzantine scholar John Tzetzes. Cassiphone's name is a compound word that translates to "brother killer"...
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  • Roman Biography and Mythology. Tzetzes, Chiliades 1.18 line 464-465 Gods and Heroes, Gustav Schwab, Pantheon Tzetzes, John, Book of Histories, Book I...
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    descending from gods, makes Oenomaus son of a mortal father, Alxion. John Tzetzes adduces a version which, in the same vein, calls Oenomaus son of a Hyperochus...
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    of "all sorts of snakes" along his back, while the Byzantine poet John Tzetzes (who probably based his account on Apollodorus) gives Cerberus fifty heads...
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    in its mouth. Other sources give different numbers: The Bibliotheca 50; Tzetzes 23; and Quintus Smyrnaeus gives the names of 30, but says there were more...
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    writers give her real name as Astynome (Ἀστυνόμη). The 12th-century poet Tzetzes describes her to be "very young and thin, with milky skin; had blond hair...
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