Approaches to Greek Poetry: Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, and Aeschylus in Ancient Exegesis (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes) (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 73)

In the last decades the field of research on ancient Greek scholarship has been the object of a remarkable surge of interest, with the publication of handbooks, reference works, and new editions of texts. This partly unexpected revival is very promising and it continues to enhance and modify both our knowledge of ancient scholarship and the way in which we are accustomed to discuss these texts and tackle the editorial and exegetical challenges they pose. This volume deals with some pivotal aspects of this topic, being the outcome of a three-year project funded by the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research (MIUR) on specific aspects of the critical re-appraisal of Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, and Aeschylus in Greek culture throughout antiquity and the Middle Ages. It tackles issues such as the material form of the transmission of the exegesis from papyri to codices, the examination of hitherto unexplored branches of the manuscript evidence, the discussion of some important scholia, and the role played by the indirect tradition and the assimilation of the exegetical heritage in grammatical and lexicographical works. Some strands of the ancient and medieval scholarship are here re-evaluated afresh by adopting an interdisciplinary methodology which blends modern editorial techniques developed for ‘problematic’ or ‘non-authorial’ medieval texts with current trends in the history of philology and literary criticism. In their diversity of subject matter and approach the papers collected in the volume give intended readers an excellent overview of the topics of the project. Contents 5 Foreword 7 Part I: Homeric exegesis in antiquity 17 Observations on Aristarchus’ Homeric studies 17 Eratosthenes, Crates and Aristarchus on the Homeric dual. Rethinking the origins of the ‘analogy vs. anomaly controversy’ 31 Chi 57 Glossary to Odyssey VIII in a new papyrus fragment from the Leipzig Papyrus- und Ostrakasammlung 67 Part II: Homeric and Hesiodic exegesis in Byzantine manuscripts and texts 89 The Iliad “Textscholien” in the Venetus A 89 The oldest textual witness of John Tzetzes’ Exegesis of the Iliad 113 On the sources of Lascaris’ edition of the D-scholia on the Iliad 139 Enumerating the Muses: Tzetzes in Hes. Op. 1 and the parody of catalogic poetry in Epicharmus 167 Part III: Pindar between scholia and lexica 201 Aristarchomastix. Dionysius of Sidon between epic and lyric poetry 201 Theon’s Pindaric exegesis: new materials from marginalia on papyri 219 Criticism of Pindar’s poetry in the scholia vetera 239 A lexicographical collection in two manuscripts of Cyrillus’ Lexicon and a new testimonium on Pindar 267 Part IV: Aeschylus in the exegetical tradition 293 The imaginative poet: Aeschylus’ phantasiai in ancient literary criticism 293 Aeschylus’ scholia in ms. Ath. Iber. 209: Two examples 321 Around Europe in two hundred years: The wanderings of ms. Ath. Iber. 209 331 Afterword 351 Ancient Scholarship Today 351 List of Contributors 361 Index nominum et rerum 365 Index locorum 377