Francesca Schironi

Biographic Data

ID5633741
NAMEFrancesca Schironi
GIVEN NAMESFrancesca
FAMILY NAMESchironi
SIGNATURESCHIRONI F
AFFILIATIONSHarvard University
ORCID0000-0001-5467-6995
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS34
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT34
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX2

  • Saving the Ivory Tower From Oblivion: The Role of Scribes in Preserving Alexandrian Scholarship

    Francesca SchironiCHAPTERObserving the Scribe at Work2021

  • Aristarchus in his own words? What his ‘most secure’ fragments can tell us about Aristarchus’ commentaries and their transmission

    Open AccessFrancesca SchironiARTICLEBulletin of the Institute of…2021

    As is well known, we have lost Aristarchus’ original works and rely only on excerpta, mostly preserved in scholia and lexica dating back to the Byzantine period. The richest sources are the scholia maiora to Homer, especially those in the famous codex Venetus A (tenth century ce), which preserves ample excerpts of the so-called Viermännerkommentar, the ‘commentary of the four men’—Didymus, Aristonicus, Herodian, and Nicanor. These four scholars, …

  • The Best of the Grammarians: Aristarchus of Samothrace on the Iliad

    Francesca SchironiBOOKThe Best of the Grammarians2018

    A founding father of the "art of philology," Aristarchus of Samothrace (216–144 BCE) made a profound contribution to ancient scholarship. In his study of Homer's Iliad, his methods and principles inevitably informed, even reshaped, his edition of the epic. This systematic study places Aristarchus and his fragments preserved in the Iliadic scholia, or marginal annotations, in the context and cultural environment of his own time. Francesca Schironi…

  • Εν Αρχηι Ην Ο Λογος: The Long Journey of Grammatical Analogy

    Open AccessFrancesca SchironiARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly2018Cited by: 1References: 23

    Grammar as a discipline devoted to the study of language was greatly advanced by the Alexandrian philologists, and especially by Aristarchus, as demonstrated by Stephanos Matthaios. In order to edit Homer and other literary authors, whose texts were often written in archaic Greek and presented many linguistic problems, the Alexandrians had to recognize linguistic grammatical categories and declensional patterns. In particular, to determine the co…

  • Scholarship, Hellenistic

    Open AccessFrancesca SchironiOTHERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2016References: 3

    Scholarship developed in all the main Hellenistic courts, as a result of royal patronage. With their many interests, the Alexandrian scholars to a particularly marked extent developed new genres and methodologies to study literary and non‐literary texts. Their work had a permanent impact on the selection of Greek literature which we still read, and also on our own approach to the humanities because disciplines such as philology, grammar, literary…

  • Aristarchus’ Work in Progress: What Did Aristonicus and Didymus Read of Aristarchus

    Open AccessFrancesca SchironiARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly2015Cited by: 1References: 1

    As is well known, the work of Aristarchus on Homer is not preserved by direct tradition. We have instead many fragments preserved mainly in the Homeric scholia, the Byzantine Etymologica and the Homeric commentaries by Eustathius of Thessalonica. These fragments go back to the so-called Viermännerkommentar (abbreviated VMK), the ‘commentary of the four men’, a commentary that is dated to the fifth-sixth century c.e. and collects the works of Aris…

  • The Ambiguity of Signs: Critical σημεῖα from Zenodotus to Origen

    Francesca SchironiCHAPTERHomer and the Bible in the Eyes…2012

    Peer Reviewed

  • Greek Commentaries

    Francesca SchironiARTICLEDead Sea Discoveries2012Cited by: 2

  • Etymology

    Open AccessFrancesca SchironiCHAPTER2011

    http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/197622/2/01_HE_Etymology.pdf

  • Hupomnêmata

    Open AccessFrancesca SchironiCHAPTER2011

    http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/197620/2/01_HE_hupomn mata.pdf

  • Apollonius Sophista

    Open AccessFrancesca SchironiCHAPTER2011

    http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/197630/2/01_HE_Apollonius Sophista.pdf

  • Didymus

    Open AccessFrancesca SchironiCHAPTER2011

    http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/197624/2/01_HE_Didymus.pdf

  • Ammonius

    Open AccessFrancesca SchironiCHAPTER2011

    http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/197632/2/01_HE_Ammonius.pdf

  • Aristarchus of Samothrace (216–144 bce )

    Open AccessFrancesca SchironiCHAPTER2011

    http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/197629/2/01_HE_Aristarchus of Samothrace.pdf

  • Sigla, Critical

    Open AccessFrancesca SchironiCHAPTER2011

  • Diplê

    Open AccessFrancesca SchironiCHAPTER2011

    http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/197623/2/01_HE_Diple.pdf

  • Athetesis

    Open AccessFrancesca SchironiCHAPTER2011

    http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/197625/2/01_HE_Athetesis.pdf

  • Nicanor

    Open AccessFrancesca SchironiCHAPTER2011

    http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/197619/2/01_HE_Nicanor.pdf

  • Zoïlus

    Open AccessFrancesca SchironiCHAPTER2011

    http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/197612/2/01_HE_Zoilus.pdf

  • Viermännerkommentar

    Open AccessFrancesca SchironiCHAPTER2011

    http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/197614/2/01_HE_Viermaennerkommentar.pdf

  • Zenodotus of Ephesus

    Open AccessFrancesca SchironiCHAPTER2011

    http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/197613/2/01_HE_Zenodotus of Ephesus.pdf

  • Apollodorus of Athens

    Open AccessFrancesca SchironiCHAPTER2011

    http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/197631/2/01_HE_Apollodorus of Athens.pdf

  • Aristonicus

    Open AccessFrancesca SchironiCHAPTER2011

  • Aristophanes of Byzantium ( ca . 257–180 bce )

    Open AccessFrancesca SchironiCHAPTER2011

  • Obelos

    Open AccessFrancesca SchironiCHAPTER2011

    http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/197617/2/01_HE_Obelos.pdf