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A founding father of the "art of philology," Aristarchus of Samothrace (216–144 BCE) made a profound contribution to ancient scholarship. In his study of Homer's Iliad , his methods and principles inevitably informed, even reshaped, his edition of the epic. This systematic study places Aristarchus and his fragments preserved in the Iliadic scholia , or marginal annotations, in the context and cultural environment of his own time. Francesca Schironi presents a more robust picture of Aristarchus as a scholar than anyone has offered previously. Based on her analysis of over 4,300 fragments from his commentary on the Iliad , she reconstructs Aristarchus' methodology and its relationship to earlier scholarship, especially Aristotelian poetics. Schironi departs from the standard commentary on individual fragments, and instead organizes them by topic to produce a rigorous scholarly examination of how Aristarchus worked. Combining the accuracy and detail of traditional philology with a big-picture study of recurrent patterns and methodological trends across Aristarchus' work, this volume offers a new approach to scholarship in Alexandrian and classical philology. It will be the go-to

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Author

Francesca Schironi

Publisher

The University of Michigan Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780472130764

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Language Learning, Literary Fiction

Updated

2026-03-24