The ancient scholia to the Iliad—excerpts of ancient scholarship and commentary on the Iliad that have been preserved as marginal and interlinear notes in major medieval manuscripts—constitute a uniquely rich and challenging source for anyone interested in Greco-Roman antiquity. A mass of material that includes textual criticism, lexical debate, and literary interpretation, the scholia range in quality from the tralaticious to the dazzlingly insightful, and they reflect multiple critical and exegetical approaches employed over many centuries. These responses to one of antiquity’s most important texts provide vital information about ancient literary exegesis, textual criticism, and education, and contain valuable evidence for the state of the Homeric texts in antiquity. But despite a recent surge of interest in Greek literary scholarship and scholiography,1¹ the Iliad scholia remain relatively underexploited by all but a limited group of specialists. Philological analyses have traditionally characterized handling of this material, and these methods remain invaluable for unpacking the challenging language and sometimes unusual premises and presuppositions of these texts. Nonetheless, this volume seeks to combine that heritage with readings that position the scholia in the longue durée of both ancient and modern intellectual history, in an attempt to open up multiple trajectories for future scholarship.

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《伊利亚特》的古代学问——古代学术和对《伊利亚特》的评论的摘录在主要的中世纪手稿中作为边注和行间注释保存下来——对于任何对希腊罗马古代感兴趣的人来说，都是独一无二的丰富和具有挑战性的来源。大量的材料，包括文本批评、词汇辩论和文学解释，scholia 的质量范围从 tralattical 到令人眼花缭乱的洞察力，它们反映了多个世纪以来采用的多种批评和释经方法。这些对古代最重要文本之一的回应提供了有关古代文学释经、文本批评和教育的重要信息，并包含古代荷马文本状态的宝贵证据。但尽管大家对希腊文学研究和scholiography近期激增，1 ¹的伊利亚特除了有限的专家组之外，其他所有人对 schlia 的开发仍然相对不足。传统上，语言学分析表征了对这种材料的处理，这些方法对于解开这些文本的挑战性语言和有时不寻常的前提和预设仍然是无价的。尽管如此，本书仍力图将这一遗产与将scholia 置于古代和现代思想史的长期阅读结合起来，试图为未来的学术开辟多条轨迹。