Editing the Scholia to Euripides
Donald J. Mastronarde, Professor
Classics
Closed. This professor is continuing with Fall 2024 apprentices on this project; no new apprentices needed for Spring 2025.
This project involves research for a new and more complete edition of the scholia to Euripides. Scholia are annotations written in the margins and between the lines of medieval manuscripts of classical authors. In the scholia we find filtered through many generations of reuse parts of ancient scholarly discussions of problems of text and literary interpretation; we also find explanations of rare and difficult words and expressions and other comments intended for use in the schools of antiquity and the middle ages.
Role: For Fall 2024 there are two kinds of work available: (1) An apprentice with some knowledge of Ancient Greek (preferably at least two years) would receive a basic training in medieval paleography and would work on labeling of images of manuscripts by play and line number. More advanced tasks (such as collating) may be attempted by an apprentice with greater proficiency in Ancient Greek. (2) An apprentice with with some knowledge of Ancient Greek (preferably at least two years) would work on matching scholia in the working files with those printed in the 19th century editions.
Qualifications: The research apprentice for these tasks should have basic to advanced knowledge of ancient Greek (preferably, at least 4 semesters) and be willing to receive instruction in medieval palaeography and, if necessary, to learn to type polytonic Greek. All training and all work for both tasks can be carried out on any internet-connected computer, and in-person meetings are not necessarily involved.
Hours: 3-5 hrs
Related website: https://EuripidesScholia.org
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