500 free pages of Greek commentary on Homer

Scholia D. This is tremendously neat, so I’ll forgive the annoying lunate sigma.

http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa/vanthiel/scholiaD.pdf


wm

William, where did you get it? That’s awesome!!! :astonished: A word of warning for the beginners however is necessary: If you click on William’s link a 500 page PDF book will appear on your desktop. !!!


What this beast contains are the line numbers of the Iliad, all 24 books of it, accompanied by explanatory notes to each of these lines. The notes are called Scholia. This is the term given to commentary notes that are handwritten on the pages of the book beside the text.

William has here offered us the compilation of the scholia from the extant codices of the Iliad. Real sweet if your planning on being a Homeric scholar ::slight_smile: or just for the hell of it. ;D

Thanks Will. :wink:



I’ve been trying to find known-free Unicode editions of Homer. There are nice copies at the Bibliotheca Augustana and I was digging into the references he gave for the text. Two pointed into this guy’s site, though not quite correctly. I went digging around (in German… slow for me these days) and found the Scholia. This gentleman is apparently responsible for German crit. editions (not Teubner) of the Iliad and Odyssey.

I thought the Scholia was cool, since I’ve never seen one of those before.


That’s awesome!!! > :astonished: > A word of warning for the beginners however is necessary: If you click on William’s link a 500 page PDF book will appear on your desktop. !!!



Smaller than the scanned books here at Textkit, though.


William has here offered us the compilation of the scholia from the extant codices of the Iliad. Real sweet if your planning on being a Homeric scholar ::slight_smile: or just for the hell of it. ;D



Just keep in mind that the scholia are interesting, but not always entirely accurate, either. They represent a connection to the earliest Homeric scholarship, which is terribly cool, but the interaction with the scholia should be just as questioning as the interaction with any other work of criticism.

Mostly it’s just nice to study Homer in Greek with grammar and vocab notes in easier Greek. :slight_smile:


wm