Editing the Scholia to Euripides
Donald J. Mastronarde, Professor
Classics
Applications for Fall 2025 are closed for this project.
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 2025 the work available requires at least 3 and preferably 4 semesters of study of Ancient Greek. (1) An apprentice may work on matching scholia in the working files with those printed in the 19th century editions and recording the references for the previous publications in the files. (2) An apprentice may work on collating or transcribing scholia in manuscripts that are not yet used in the project.
Qualifications: The research apprentice for these tasks should have intermediate 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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