...This chapter surveys evidence for Pindaric editions in the Hellenistic period, assesses the aims of ancient commentaries on Pindar insofar as these can be constructed from the extant scholia, and discusses references to Pindar in ancient literary criticism. In doing so, it aims to present as full...

...The theologian, philosopher, and bishop John of Scythopolis wrote a prologue and scholia to the four treatises and ten letters of Dionysius Areopagita. With this, he was the first scholiast of the Dionysian writings, and his efforts put him at the beginning of a long succession of high-profile...

... documents in speeches scholia transmission Corpus Demosthenicum Demosthenes papyri manuscripts codex scholia corpus stichometry paratexts If the finds of ancient Greek books from Egypt give us any indication as to how popular certain works were in antiquity, the Corpus...

... examination of the fragments shows that he was an expert on judicial and deliberative oratory whose most influential work was a commentary on Demosthenes. Source-critical analysis of the Demosthenes scholia shows that his commentary can be partially reconstructed. The book presents its reassessment...

... is addressed. Nevertheless, the chorus’s dramatic, and especially cathartic, role is missing, despite the philosopher’s awareness of the cathartic function of music. Questions are raised regarding the extent to which post-classical approaches to the chorus, especially in the scholia...

... that the questions we ask and the ways we answer them have been, to a degree, already scripted within the rhetorical-hermeneutical tradition, from the scholia onwards. Interpretation is implicated within this history of textual interpretation, however much readers imagine that they occupy an autonomous position when...

...This chapter examines the fragmentary evidence on the course of John of Scythopolis' career as a theologian. It analyses his theological works and discusses his Scholia and Prologue to the works of Dionysius the Areopagite. It suggests that John's theological works...

...John, the sixth-century orthodox bishop of Scythopolis in Palestine, was the first of many authors to comment upon the highly influential Pseudo–Dionysian writings (such as The Mystical Theology). Here translated and interpreted, John's Prologue and Scholia (marginalia) have only...

...Aristotle’s Lost Homeric Problems: Textual Studies. Robert Mayhew, Oxford University Press (2019). © Robert Mayhew. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198834564.003.0007 Unlike most of the chapters in this volume, the present chapter is focused on a set of related Homeric scholia that have...

...0 29 04 1993 Much the best documented library of the age belonged to Arethas of Patras, archbishop of Caesarea from 902 or 903 to the early 93os. metri gratia terminus a secretis Scholia vetera sylloge Euphemiana This content is only available as a PDF. ...

... expert in antiquity that has not been studied adequately thus far, viz. the references to Hesiod’s poetry found in the Homeric scholia. The Homeric scholiasts’ treatment of Hesiod resonates with the agonistic relation between the two poets that developed in the biographical traditions. The chapter...

...This volume consists of a set of studies focused on various aspects of a relatively neglected subject: a lost work of Aristotle entitled Homeric Problems. Most of the evidence for this lost work consists mainly of ‘fragments’ surviving in the Homeric scholia (comments...

... philosophical contexts. Armenian literature Philo in Grecism manuscripts of Philo scholia Terian Abraham Constantinople Byzantium allegory Eden Garden of spirit Therapeutae wisdom Adam Catenae Eusebius John Chrysostom Noah serpent Isidore of Pelusium Logos λόγος Moses Paul Apostle Trinity...

...This chapter studies several ancient commentaries of Demosthenes that have survived. It describes these commentaries as particularly volatile and subject to different types of reorganization and excerpting. A section on the relationship between the ancient commentaries and the Byzantine scholia...

...The chapter gives a description of the mythographical material that can be found in four corpora of scholia—the scholia to Homer, Pindar, Euripides, and Apollonius Rhodius—from a synchronic perspective. A formal classification is proposed, following two criteria: the function of the mythographical...

... impulses in prologues Iphigenia among the Taurians Tragodoumena Asclepiades of Tragilus scholia to scholia and study and reading of tragedy hypotheses and study and reading of tragedy sources tragedy mythography scholia hypotheses Apollodorus Euripides Asclepiades of Tragilus Hyginus...

...The chapter begins with a short overview of the history, structure, and themes of the commentary on Terence composed by the grammarian Aelius Donatus. The main discussion explores the audience and purposes of the commentary, showing that the scholia on delivery, language style, and stage movement...

...This chapter presents a partial translation of John of Scythopolis' Scholia focusing on the commentaries he made in defence of the Dionysian corpus. This translation includes comments relevant to his defence of the corpus, or about two-thirds of his commentary. The omission...

...This chapter investigates the nature of Menander’s commentary on Demosthenes by examining selected material from the Demosthenes scholia. It is shown that the commentary was primarily didactic and practical in its orientation, and appears to be based on lectures to advanced...

...Greene prints γέλωτι, the reading of the two manuscripts of the scholia. But the ending is clearly corrupt, by a wrong adaptation to the following dative σπασμώ. Siebenkees (1798), 47 wrote γελώντες instead, and was followed by C. F. Hermann (1851-3), vi. 133. This is better, but still not right...