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The DS scholia on the Aeneid and their manuscript tradition
Published 2023“…<p>No thorough investigation comparable to the one which Murgia dedicated to the transmission of Servius’ commentary has hitherto been dedicated to the transmission of the DS scholia on the <i>Aeneid</i>. This thesis, which consists of four chapters, is intended to fill this gap. …”
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Contextualizing comedy: assumptions of intertextuality in the Aristophanic scholia
Published 2024“…By surveying the piecemeal and often elusive evidence provided by the Aristophanic scholia, the present contribution seeks to map out both the achievements and the limitations of this strand of research. …”
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“When he should have said...” The treatment of humour παρ’ ὑπόνοιαν in the Aristophanic Scholia
Published 2024“…While the Aristophanic scholia do not normally pay much attention to the mechanisms of verbal humour, there are numerous annotations pointing out jokes “against expectation”. …”
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The heirs of Theodore: Aḥob of Qatar and the development of the East Syriac exegetical tradition
Published 2022“…In Chapter 2, I present an annotated edition and English translation of Aḥob’s Cause of the Psalms and surviving attributed Old Testament scholia, as well as a discussion of disputed scholia and spurious scholia connected to Aḥob. …”
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Ancient scholarship on papyrus: new light from Oxyrhynchus
Published 2022“…Some pieces, such as the commentary on Herodotus, provide rare and substantial new evidence for ancient scholarship on a particular author, while others, such as the scholia minora, contribute usefully to the stock of evidence for types of ancient scholarship that are already well known. …”
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Early Christian scripture and the Samaritan Pentateuch: a study in hexaplaric manuscript activity
Published 2016“…The extant hexaplaric colophons and scholia found in the books of Exodus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy reveal that at some point the Caesarean Library acquired a copy of the Samaritan Hebrew Pentateuch. …”
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The Peira and the Basilica
Published 2012“…Careful scrutiny of two passages in the eleventh-century collection of court cases known as the <em>Peira</em> demonstrates that Byzantine law was founded on the Corpus Iuris of Justinian and that quotations from the <em>Basilica</em>, which provided easy access to the normative written law, could be supplemented by direct references to Justinianic legislation and associated scholia. …”
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Ancient scholarship on Aristophanes
Published 2024“…It surveys the primary authors and categories of such scholarship, including Aristotle, the scholia, the Atticists, and other late antique and Byzantine encyclopedists and grammarians. …”
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Chapter two: Didymus and lyric
Published 2021“…The greatest amount of surviving material comes from the Pindar scholia and concerns Pindar's Epinicians, but there are fragments and testimonies of his commentaries to other authors and a treatise On Lyric Poets. …”
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Poem-titles in Simonides, Pindar, and Bacchylides
Published 2019“…Consideration is given to their reception in authors such as Aristophanes, Herodotus, Plato, Plutarch, Athenaeus, Aelius Aristides, Catullus, Horace, Virgil, Ovid, and Statius, as well as their discussion by Peripatetic scholars, the Hellenistic scholia to Pindar, Horace’s commentator Porphyrio, and Eustathius on Pindar.…”
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What did the Rabbis know about grammar? Exegesis and grammatical gender in late antiquity
Published 2022“…Points of comparison are sought in late-antique grammatical treatises and non-rabbinic interpretive works, including Philo’s commentaries and scholia on the Iliad and Aeneid, with particular attention to perceived relationships between grammatical gender and cultural gender norms. …”
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Didymus Chalcenterus and Aristophanes' two Plutus plays
Published 2023“…<p>A variety of ancient sources suggest that there was more than one Aristophanic play entitled Πλοῦτος, and the scholia on the extant Plutus show that one ancient commentator erroneously thought that he was working on a comedy of 408 BC when in reality he had the comedy of 388 BC in front of him. …”
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Early medieval glosses to Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiae
Published 2024“…<p>Scholars have known of the existence of these glosses or scholia for over a century, and several have at various times set out to collect the material and make it available to others in accessible form, but all have failed or abandoned the task on discovering the scale of the challenge and the difficulty of organising the masses of material. …”
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John Tzetzes’ Allegories of the Iliad: introduction and partial edition
Published 2023“…The thesis offers a critical edition of books 1-6 and 10-12 of the Allegories of the Iliad and all the scholia to those books. …”
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Personal jokes in Aristophanes
Published 1981“…The second chapter analyses the treatment of personal jokes in the scholia on Aristophanes, and shows that this typically involves a questionable model of satire, largely taken over by modern commentators on the plays, as a reflector of the truth about its targets. …”
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