Joannes
63. Of GAZA, a Greek writer (grammaticus), of whose date nothing is known, except that he lived after the time of the Christian poet Nonnus [NONNUS], who may be placed in or just before the reign of Justinian I. John of Gaza appears to have imitated the style of Nonnus.
Works
He wrote:
1. Ἔκφραδις τοῦ κοδμικοῦ πίνακος τοῦ ἐν Γάζη ἢ ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ, Tabellae Unicersi Ecphrasis
An iambic poem of 701 lines.
Editions
Published by Janus Rutgersius in his Variae Lectiones, 4to., Leyden, 1618, pp. 98, &c.
2. Περὶ Ἀρχαιολογίας, De Antiquitatibus
extant in MS., and quoted by Du Cange in his notes to Zonaras.
Further Information
Rutgersius, Var. Leet. l.c.; Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. viii. p. 610, vol. xi. p. 653.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.