BELEROPHON IN TZETZES: HISTORIES VII 149: AN APPROACH TO THE AUTHOR
Authors
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Ana Bocanegra-Briasco
Conservatorio Superior de Música "Victoria Eugenia" de Granada
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6098-9661
Abstract
As in much of his production, Juan Tzetzes intends to make a power ful selfpromotional instrument of the one that bears the number 149 of Book VII of his Histories. To this end, he acts on the text in diff erent ways, tuming it into the weapon with which to defeat his enemies on the intellectual battlefield of Byzantium and achieve the professional success he always yeamed for: using Bellerophon as a transcript of himself that allows him to be able to present himself as the wise hero unjustly persecuted and demonstrating his unbeatable qualities in all his facets as an intellectual. Beneath the surface of the myth, the text thus becomes a complex framework with which it addresses different recipients by making the same elements offer different readings depending on their capacity and erudition, a kind of kaleidoscope that requires his exegesis for his deep understanding.Keywords:
Byzantium, Tzetzes, Histories, Bellerophon, SelfpromotionReferences
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