Eustathii Commentarii ad Homeri Iliadem 4 Volume Paperback Set (Cambridge Library Collection - Classics) (Ancient Greek Edition) - Softcover

Eustathius

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108016596 ISBN 13: 9781108016599

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Johann Stallbaum (1793-1861) published Eustathii Commentarii ad Homeri Iliadem in four volumes between 1827 and 1830. It contains the Greek text of Eustathius of Thessalonica's twelfth-century commentary on Homer's Iliad. The work is primarily a collection of extracts from much earlier authors. Eustathius' position as archbishop of Thessalonica and professor of rhetoric in Constantinople gave him access to libraries rich in ancient texts, many no longer extant. His commentary is one of the best sources of ancient Homeric scholia and preserves many otherwise lost extracts from writers such as Aristarchus of Samothrace, Zenodotus of Ephesus, and Aristophanes of Byzantium. Stallbaum's edition is a revised and corrected version of the Editio Romana of Majoranus (1542-1550). It has been an essential tool for generations of classical and Byzantine scholars. It is a great achievement of nineteenth-century scholarship.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1108016596
• ISBN 13: 9781108016599
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
• Number of pages: 1540
• Editor: Stallbaum J. G.