John Tzetzes was a towering Organiser: Department of Humanities figure in the scholarly landscape Enrico Emanuele Prodi of twelfth-century Constantinople. Ca’ Foscari He commented extensively on the Greek poets and literary history; This conference falls under the he had access to works that are dissemination activities of the project lost to us and is a source of the “Ancient Scholarship on Archaic greatest importance for the history Greek Iambic Poetry” (ASAGIP). of scholarship in antiquity. But his The project has received funding from idiosyncratic writerly persona has the European Union’s Horizon 2020 made him an easy target for the research and innovation programme irony of twentieth-century scholars, under Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant and the appreciation of his work has agreement 708556. suffered as a result. The project examines the exegesis It is all too easy, especially for and ecdotics of archaic iambos classicists, not to see beyond from the fourth century BC to the a combination of Tzetzes the twelfth AD. It attempts to provide in caricature and Tzetzes the footnote due course the first comprehensive fodder. But his vast learning and treatment of iambic scholarship in the variety and influence of his antiquity by drawing on a variety writings demands a more discerning of sources of evidence, from the attention, which has indeed started marginalia and critical signs preserved to increase in the past few decades. by papyri to entries in Hesychius that This colloquium brings together draw on the iambographers, from scholars in classical and Byzantine hypomnemata and other works of studies for the sake of a better scholarship on papyrus to Tzetzes’ understanding of Tzetzes and his quotations of Hipponax. Tzetzes output. An International Conference twitter: @tzetzes 6th - 8th September 2018 Ca’ Foscari University of Venice Aula Mario Baratto, Ca’ Foscari, Dorsoduro 3264 Immagine di copertina: Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. Graec. 18, f. 96v, CC-BY-SA 3.0 Thursday 6th September Friday 7th September Friday 8th September Session I Session III Session V Chair: Caterina Carpinato Chair: Enrico Emanuele Prodi Chair: Filippomaria Pontani 9:30 Opening of the colloquium: Giovannella 9:00 Valeria Lovato – John Tzetzes’ reception of 9:00 Marc Lauxtermann – Buffaloes and bastards: Cresci, Head of the Department of Humanities Orpheus, teacher of truth Tzetzes on metre 9:40 Alessandra Bucossi – Tzetzes and the twelfth 9:40 Caterina Franchi – Una, nessuna, centomila: 9:40 Baukje van den Berg – Verses for his century Penthesilea between Tzetzes and Eustathius deceased brother: John Tzetzes’ didactic 10:20 Frederick Lauritzen – Allegory in eleventh- 10:20 Corinne Jouanno – Tzetzes’ Alexander: poetry and his treatise on metres and twelfth-century Constantinople (Iliad 4.1) between learned and popular culture 10:20 Enrico Magnelli – Tzetzes’ hexameter: not so unruly? Coffee break Coffee break Coffee break 11:20 Vlada Stankovic – John Tzetzes as an 11:20 Ettore Cingano – Facing the early and epistolographer and a witness of the creation classical authors: Tzetzes’ reliability as a 11:20 Yulia Mantova – Tzetzes’ legacy as a source of Manuel Komnenos’ autocracy source of rare information on the socio-cultural use of invective in Byzantium 12:00 Giulia Gerbi – Epistulae ad exercitationem 12:00 Anna Novokhatko – παρὰ τῶν τεσσάρων accommodatae: notes on some fictitious τούτων σοφῶν: John Tzetzes as a critic 12:00 Tomasz Labuk – Tzetzes on the foul literary epistles by John Tzetzes Lunch break cuisine: contemporary Byzantine discourses Lunch break and ancient literary engagements Session IV Session II Chair: Federica Benuzzi Chair: Ettore Cingano 14:20 Johanna Michels – Tzetzes mythographus in 14:20 Aglae Pizzone – Why a self-commentary? Vaticanus Gr. 950 Tzetzes’ Historiai and the emergence of a new 15:00 Minerva Alganza Roldán – Le Chiliadi di genre in 12th-century Byzantium Tzetze e la tradizione mitografica: il caso di 15:00 Julián Bértola – Tzetzes’ verse scholia: a Palefato Sessions will take place in the Aula Mario Baratto, Ca’ Foscari. particular case of book epigrams Tea break Tea break 16:00 Philip Rance – Tzetzes and the Coffee, lunch, and tea breaks on Friday 7th and the 16:00 Tommaso Braccini – A neglected manuscript mechanographoi coffee break on Saturday 8th will be provided in the Sala Archivio next door. of Tzetzes’ Allegories from the Verse- 16:40 Jesús Muñoz Morcillo – John Tzetzes on Chronicle: first remarks ekphrasis Please note that no refreshments will be provided 16:40 Jacopo Cavarzeran – “Euripides talks 17:20 Ugo Mondini – John of all trades: Carmina on Thursday 6th due to a function taking place in the nonsense” (schol. Eur. Hipp. 1013b) Iliaca and Tzetzes’ didactic programme room. 17:20 Thomas Coward – Discerning Tzetzes: Towards a new edition of Tzetzes’ commentary on Lycophron.