A Collection of Scholia to the Iliad

This paper focuses on an anonymous collection of scholia to the Iliad transmitted as a self-standing commentary in manuscript Vaticanus gr. 1760 (early fourteenth century). This work, made at some point between the thirteenth and the early fourteenth century, partly draws on pre-existing works such as the bT scholia to the Iliad and Eustathius of Thessalonica’s Commentary on the Iliad . Yet, it also contains scholia for which no parallel source is found: while some of these scholia may be of a later period (possibly written by the compiler of this work himself), others look ancient. The antiquity of some scholia is suggested by the fact that they contain ancient doctrine that appears not to be otherwise preserved, thus implying that who wrote them had access to ancient sources that, at some point, got lost in the transmission. A scholium of this collection may also shed light on the author of the comic adespoton fr. 500 K.-A.

Classical period · Comics · Doctrine · Period (music) · Point (geometry) · Byzantine Studies and History · Historical and Linguistic Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies