Greek Scholia and History of Scholarship
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L’hypomnema testimoniato da questo papiro del V/VI secolo attesta una peculiare redazione testuale, rispondente a uno specifico bisogno formativo e culturale, di una delle fonti da cui a sua volta attinse il redattore "c" degli scholia... more
This chapters analyses Ovid's episode on Perseus in Metamorphoses focusing on possible influence of scholia and commentaries that can be perceived especially in the Perseus and Atlas section.
The occasion for this collection of papers is the centenary of the publication of "The Scholia on the Aves of Aristophanes" by John Williams White (Boston-London 1914), a book that played a seminal role in setting the debate on the... more
Nel libro 15 Zeus riprende il controllo della situazione: Poseidone esce di scena, Ettore riprende i sensi e guida una devastante offensiva troiana che respinge nuovamente i Greci fino alle loro navi. Il compito che il poeta si propone in... more
Il Libro IV dell'Iliade è il libro che - dopo un serie di ritardi e diversivi - vede finalmente l'inizio dei combattimenti. L'occasione viene offerta dal ferimento di Menelao, colpito da una freccia dell'arciere Pandaro, a sua volta... more
The papyrological evidence from Egypt provides a unique opportunity to explore the material aspects of reception, transmission, and production of lyric poetry from the Hellenistic to the Late Antique period. Commentaries, lexica, and... more
Atti del convegno Rovereto, 20 ottobre 2006.
In uno scolio di Aristonico si trova la soluzione per il nome delle launeddas, e si trova una nuova parola etrusca, finora accantonata dagli studiosi
Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich im weitesten Sinne mit dem Verhältnis zwischen einem Text, seinen Lesern und deren Kritikern. Ihr Gegenstand sind Anspielungen auf zeitgeschichtliche Ereignisse in antiken literarischen Texten und die... more
Il Libro VII dell'Iliade è un libro diverso dagli altri, un libro che non gioca un ruolo così chiaro nella struttura disegnata dal monumental composer, un libro che sembra persino, a volte, mancare di una sua coerenza, e che ha da sempre... more
Da tempo era vivamente sentita l’esigenza di una nuova edizione degli scoli a Platone, che sostituisse quella di Greene del 1938. Questo volume contiene una nuova edizione degli scoli relativi ai dialoghi delle prime sette tetralogie,... more
Survey and in-depth discussion of the multifaceted and disputed one-century question of the origins of Greek scholiography.
Νέα ̔Ρώμη. Rivista di ricerche bizantinistiche 15 (2018) [2019] [= Κῆπος ἀειθαλής. Studi in ricordo di Augusta Acconcia Longo, III, ed. by Francesco D’Aiuto, Santo Lucà, and Andrea Luzzi], pp. 137-165 and 49 figs. L’unico manuscritto di... more
This contribution aims at analysing as far as possible the critical tradition as regards the language of the female characters of the Euripidean tragedies which is rooted in the critique of their λαλιά and φιλοσοφεῖν in the comedies of... more
The scrutiny of a significant sample of the explanatory marginalia preserved in the ‘Antinoe Theocritus’ (P.Ant. s.n.; MP3 1487; Vth/VIth c.) highlights quite elementary exegetical features proper to a school copy in the hands of one or... more
Among the many publications fostered by the Comitato dei Classici of the Accademia dei Lincei in the last eighty years, fifteen articles and one monograph strictly concern texts, features, and manuscript transmission of scholia to ancient... more
This article discusses a pair of textual variants, preserved by the scholia to the Odyssey and attributed to Zenodotus of Ephesus, that constitute the most significant pieces of evidence for the Cretan Odyssey theory. While the communis... more
Even if no ancient commentaries on Aeschylus are preserved, there is evidence that they did exist: this is collected and discussed in the first part of this work. Particularly interesting is the possibility of a Late Antique hypomnema... more
Preprint available at https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:aad66538-3ed4-4cc2-93d7-bee066faad1e. The first systematic analyses of Hebrew grammar were composed by Rabbanite and Karaite scholars of the tenth and eleventh centuries, partly by... more
The Italian humanist Francesco Filelfo added a conspicuous amount of marginal notes both to his Latin translations of ancient Greek texts and to his own poems and prose works. These were systematically reproduced in all the manuscript... more
The term phantasia has been used by ancient scholars to point out different aspects of Aeschylean poetry, from the false mental image of a character caused by a disturbed state of mind (schol. Sept. 182–183a S.), to the icastic... more
Athenaei Deipnosophistarum textus codice Marciano traditus lemmatibus instructus est, quae quanti essent momenti primus omnium G. Cobet sagaciter perspexit. Exarata litteris maiusculis, in marginibus scripta vel inter binas textus... more
The analysis of some of John Tzetzes’ scholia to the Aristophanic plays of the Byzantine triad allows to highlight the main dynamics of interaction between the grammarian’s authorial self and the previous scholarly tradition. The latter... more
PhD scholarship in the project Margins of Learning: The Scholia on Apollonius' Argonautica at Trinity College Dublin. All fees covered (non-Eu or EU) and an annual stipend of €16,000 for 4 years. Deadline 3 May 2019.
This paper deals with the Renaissance tradition of the scholia on Sophocles, both ancient and Byzantine. The focus will be on the manuscript Parma, Biblioteca Palatina, Parm. 3176 which hands down a peculiar set of scholia on Sophocles... more
In Italian. Introduction, Greek text with translation and commentary of the testimonies and fragments of Homeric scholarship (zetemata) of the rhetor and grammarian Zoilus of Amphipolis (4th c. BC). With extensive bibliography and indexes.
This authoritative new edition of the ancient scholia to Sophocles' Electra is designed to replace the corresponding part of the Teubner text published in 1888. It is the first to rely on a complete scrutiny of the sources of the text and... more
In his work On the Ancient Comedy, fr. 25 Strecker, Eratosthenes of Cyrene gives a positive appraisal of a play on words by the comic poet Cratinus, describing it as οὐκ ἀρύθμως παίζειν. In this paper I will argue that what the ancient... more