Tzetzes wrote to a nurse of the Pantokrator hospital on the dates of some ancient doctors

Summary:
A nurse from the Pantokrator hospital challenged Tzetzes' dating of ancient doctors, claiming that Galen lived in the time of Christ, and protesting that Tzetzes made up the dates without evidence. Tzetzes in a bad-tempered letter gave him detailed evidence for the dating of Galen 
Dates:
1150: 
nurse from the Pantokrator hospital (Anonymus 1007)
  • He had protested about Ioannes 459's dating of ancient doctors, claiming that Galen lived in the time of Christ; he protested that Tzetzes made up the dates without evidence; Tzetzes in a bad-tempered letter gave him detailed evidence for the dating of Galen (:) Tzetzes, Letters 121.1-26
Ioannes Tzetzes, man of letters (Ioannes 459)
  • His dating of ancient doctors had been challenged by Anonymus 1007, who claimed that Galen lived in the time of Christ, and protested that Tzetzes made up the dates without evidence; Tzetzes in a bad-tempered letter gave him detailed evidence for the dating of Galen (:) Tzetzes, Letters 121.1-26