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With roots in the Homeric scholarship produced in the Library of Alexandria in the third and second centuries BCE, the ancient scholia to the Iliad constitute the richest and most extensive collection of ancient criticism on the most widely read poem in Greco-Roman antiquity. Excerpted from lost works of ancient scholarship and transmitted as marginal and interlinear comments in medieval manuscripts of the Iliad, these scholia contain a remarkable wealth of insights into the constitution of the Homeric text, the readings and editorial principles of ancient grammarians, the literary interpretations of ancient critics, and the lessons that ancient readers took from Homer. This volume provides the first English translation of the ancient scholia to Iliad books 1–2. With a clear and accessible introduction, extensive explanatory notes, and a glossary of ancient scholars, this book serves as the ideal guide to this complex and fascinating tradition.

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BILL BECK is an Assistant Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington and co-editor of The Ancient Scholia to Homer's Iliad: Exegesis and Interpretation (2021). His research has been supported by the US-UK Fulbright Commission, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, the Fondation Hardt, the Institute of Advanced Study at Indiana University, Bloomington, and the Loeb Classical Library Foundation.

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