Baukje van den Berg is Assistant Professor of Byzantine Studies at Central European University. Divna Manolova is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Medieval Literature at the University of York and the University of Southern Denmark. Przemysław Marciniak is Professor of Byzantine Literature at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.

• Introduction: Byzantine commentaries on ancient Greek texts Baukje van den Berg and Divna Manolova; 1. The politics and practices of commentary in Komnenian Byzantium Panagiotis A. Agapitos; 2. Forging identities between Heaven and Earth: commentaries on Aristotle and authorial practices in eleventh- and twelfth-century Byzantium Michele Trizio; 3. Cultural appropriation and the performance of exegesis in John Tzetzes' scholia on Aristophanes Aglae Pizzone; 4. Uncovering the literary sources of John Tzetzes' Theogony Maria Tomadaki; 5. Odysseus the schedographer Valeria F. Lovato; 6. Eustathios of Thessalonike on comedy and ridicule in Homeric poetry Baukje van den Berg; 7. Geography at school: Eustathios of Thessalonike's Parekbolai on Dionysius Periegetes Inmaculada Pérez Martín; 8. Painting and polyphony: the Christos Paschon as commentary Margaret Mullett; 9. Parodying antiquity for pleasure and learning: the Idyll by Maximos Planoudes Krystina Kubina; 10. Teaching poetry in the early Palaiologan school: Manuel Holobolos' and John Pediasimos' commentaries on Theocritus' Syrinx Paula Caballero Sánchez; 11. Late Byzantine scholia on the Greek classics: what did they comment on? Manuel Moschopoulos on Sophocles' Electra Andrea M. Cuomo; 12. Theodora Raoulaina's autograph codex Vat. gr. 1899 and Aelius Aristides Fevronia Nousia; 13. The reception of Eustathios of Thessalonike's Parekbolai in Arsenios Apostolis' and Erasmus' paroemiographic collections Lorenzo M. Ciolfi.