Fausto Montana - Böcker

The ancient Greek commentaries that were preserved on papyrus, i.e. the hypomnemata and marginalia on Greek authors as well as glossaries and lexica, have previously been published in scattered works. This corpus is unique in the academic world in that it presents these texts in collected form. A new installment of approximately 250-300 pages is to appear every two or three years (in total, about 15 installments are planned for the period 2003/2020). The entire work is divided into four main sections: Pars I Commentaria et lexica in auctores; Pars II Commentaria in adespota; Pars III Lexica; Pars IV Concordantiae et Indices.

The ancient Greek commentaries that were preserved on papyrus have previously been published in scattered works. This corpus is unique in the academic world in that it presents these texts in collected form. The entire work is divided into four main sections: Pars I Commentaria et lexica in auctores; Pars II Commentaria in adespota; Pars III Lexica; Pars IV Concordantiae et Indices.

About 25 years have passed since the publication of the Supplementum Hellenisticum by Hugh Lloyd-Jones and Peter J. Parsons (1983) and the Supplementum Supplementi Hellenistici by the same Hugh Lloyd-Jones (2005). Yet, in a relatively short time, the discovery and publication of new papyri and the intense advancement of research and scholarly debate have significantly expanded and improved our textual knowledge on Hellenistic Greek poetry. The quantity and value of these novelties are such to recommend not to prepare a new Supplement of the Supplement(s), but to conduct a comprehensive critical review and an analytical updating of the two previous works, also to include authors and texts previously discarded because they were already included in other corpora such as the Collectanea Alexandrina by J.U. Powell (Oxford 1925). This book, edited by specialists of cultural history and of Hellenistic poetry, proposes a new and original stage along the way of systematic collection, editing and reconstruction of that poetic heritage.