mazaris () was a 15th-century byzantine greek author who wrote a satire titled "mazaris' journey to hades". because his life is unknown, mazaris has been loosely connected to two people with the same name: manuel mazaris, a hymnographer and "protonotarios" (or "chief notary") of thessaloniki, and maximus mazaris, a monk and author of a book on rules of grammar. "mazaris' journey to hades" may have been written between january 1414 and october 1415. it ridicules some byzantine elites and exposes the evils of the lower classes in the peloponnese.