The Byzantine commentators on Sophocles’ Oedipus the King

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Abstract

This chapter investigates the commentaries on Sophocles’ Oedipus the King by the Byzantine scholars Maximum Planudes, Manuel Moschopoulos, and especially Thomas Magister; it looks at several passages in Thomas’s commentary, analysing the distinctive features of his approach and arguing that his work should not be neglected by scholars today.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAncient Commentaries on Greek Texts. Methods and Trends of Ancient and Byzantine scholarship
EditorsE. Cingano
Publication statusAccepted/In press - 2019

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