Book contents
- The Ancient Scholia to Homer’s Iliad
- The Ancient Scholia to Homer’s Iliad
- The Ancient Scholia to Homer’s Iliad
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Note on the Translation
- The Ancient Scholia to Homer’s Iliad
- Book part
- Glossary of Ancient Scholars
- Bibliography
- Index of Passages
- General Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 December 2025
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Book contents
- The Ancient Scholia to Homer’s Iliad
- The Ancient Scholia to Homer’s Iliad
- The Ancient Scholia to Homer’s Iliad
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Note on the Translation
- The Ancient Scholia to Homer’s Iliad
- Book part
- Glossary of Ancient Scholars
- Bibliography
- Index of Passages
- General Index
Summary
Scholia, broadly defined, are comments about a featured text that are inserted into the free spaces around it.1 In the specialized sense in which the term is used by modern scholars of ancient Greek literary texts, scholia are comments on ancient authorial texts excerpted from earlier works of scholarship and preserved in medieval manuscripts, typically inserted as marginal or interlinear notes around the text being commented upon.2 While scholiastic corpora exist for many works of ancient Greek literature,3 the scholia to the Iliad are by far the richest and most extensive collection of scholia extant, filling thousands of pages of the most comprehensive critical edition currently available, the edition on which the translation in this volume is based.4 These scholia offer a unique window into centuries of ancient and medieval scholarship on the Iliad, from the editorial activity of Alexandrian philologists and the literary exegesis of Imperial and Late Antique commentators to the grammatical and lexical work of Byzantine scholars.
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