# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-tzetzes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:04:41.662Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-tzetzes"
name: "John Tzetzes"
slug: "john-tzetzes"
description: "John Tzetzes was a Byzantine poet and grammarian who lived at Constantinople in the 12th century. He is known for making significant contributions in preserving much valuable information from ancient Greek literature and scholarship. Of his numerous works, the most important one is the Book of Histories, also known as Chiliades ('Thousands'). The work is a long poem containing knowledge that is unavailable elsewhere and serves as commentary on Tzetzes's own letters. Two of his other important works are the Allegoriai on the Iliad and the Odyssey, which are long didactic poems containing interpretations of Homeric theology."
tagline: "Byzantine poet and writer (c.1110–1180)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Houghton_MS_Gr_20_-_Theogeny%2C_151.jpg/330px-Houghton_MS_Gr_20_-_Theogeny%2C_151.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1110"
deathDate: "1180"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.85
  momentum:             0.313426514188903
  historical:           20.88766
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump