TY - JOUR
T1 - Scholia vetera in Sophoclis Oedipum Coloneum. Sammlung griechischer und lateinischer Grammatiker, Band 18
T2 - Georgios A. Xenis, Scholia vetera in Sophoclis Oedipum Coloneum. Sammlung griechischer und lateinischer Grammatiker, Band 18. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018. xxiii, 252. ISBN 9783110447330. €79,95.
AU - Finglass, P. J.
PY - 2018/10/1
Y1 - 2018/10/1
N2 - Editions of the plays of Sophocles are ten a penny; editions of the ancient scholia to those dramas, by contrast, turn up far less often. The most recent complete edition is still that of P. N. Papageorgius, now 130 years old and showing its age; in particular, it relied wholly on the manuscript Laurentianus plut. 32.9 (L), which today is no longer regarded as the sole source of the text. Since then scholia to individual plays have been edited by Vittorio De Marco ( Oedipus at Colonus, 1951), Timothy Janz ( Philoctetes, 2004, an unpublished Oxford DPhil thesis), Georgios Christodoulou ( Ajax, 1977), and Georgios Xenis ( Electra and Trachiniae, both 2010). Xenis has now produced a further volume of scholia, this time from Oedipus at Colonus. It shows the same virtues as his previous two editions (see BMCR 2011.07.22), and can be warmly recommended to scholars and students.
AB - Editions of the plays of Sophocles are ten a penny; editions of the ancient scholia to those dramas, by contrast, turn up far less often. The most recent complete edition is still that of P. N. Papageorgius, now 130 years old and showing its age; in particular, it relied wholly on the manuscript Laurentianus plut. 32.9 (L), which today is no longer regarded as the sole source of the text. Since then scholia to individual plays have been edited by Vittorio De Marco ( Oedipus at Colonus, 1951), Timothy Janz ( Philoctetes, 2004, an unpublished Oxford DPhil thesis), Georgios Christodoulou ( Ajax, 1977), and Georgios Xenis ( Electra and Trachiniae, both 2010). Xenis has now produced a further volume of scholia, this time from Oedipus at Colonus. It shows the same virtues as his previous two editions (see BMCR 2011.07.22), and can be warmly recommended to scholars and students.
M3 - Book/Film/Article review (Academic Journal)
SN - 1055-7660
VL - BMCR 2018.10.14
JO - Bryn Mawr Classical Review
JF - Bryn Mawr Classical Review
ER -