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Claudius Aelianus’ De natura animalium treatise enjoyed great popularity until the Byzantine age due to its subject and the author’s reputation as a model for Atticist writers. This volume contains the first critical edition of its scholia and glosses found in the mediaeval manuscripts, and of the rich exegetical commentary originally composed in the circle of Planudes and Moschopulus to accompany selections for textbooks in the Palaeologan age.

Aelian, --- Scholia --- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient, Classical & Medieval. --- HISTORY / Ancient / General. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical. --- HISTORY / Medieval. --- Scholia. --- Zoology --- Animals --- Zoologie --- Animaux --- Pre-Linnean works --- Early works to 1800 --- Ouvrages prélinnéens --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Aelian, Claudius, --- Aelianus, Claudius --- Aelianus, Claudius, --- Ailianos, Klaudios, --- Ėlian, Klavdiĭ, --- Eliano, --- Eliano, Claudio, --- Elien, --- Αἰλιανός, Κλαύδιος, --- Ouvrages prélinnéens --- Aelianus, --- Elien, Claude --- Aelian --- Aelian, Claudius --- Ailianos, Klaudios --- Ėlian, Klavdiĭ --- Eliano --- Eliano, Claudio --- Elien --- Αἰλιανός, Κλαύδιος --- Ancient scholarship. --- Claudius Aelianus. --- Scholien. --- Wissenschaft der Antike. --- scholia. --- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical. --- Aelian, - active 3rd century. - De natura animalium --- Aelian, - active 3rd century - Scholia --- Aelian, - active 3rd century

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In the last decades the field of research on ancient Greek scholarship has been the object of a remarkable surge of interest, with the publication of handbooks, reference works, and new editions of texts. This partly unexpected revival is very promising and it continues to enhance and modify both our knowledge of ancient scholarship and the way in which we are accustomed to discuss these texts and tackle the editorial and exegetical challenges they pose. This volume deals with some pivotal aspects of this topic, being the outcome of a three-year project funded by the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research (MIUR) on specific aspects of the critical re-appraisal of Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, and Aeschylus in Greek culture throughout antiquity and the Middle Ages. It tackles issues such as the material form of the transmission of the exegesis from papyri to codices, the examination of hitherto unexplored branches of the manuscript evidence, the discussion of some important scholia, and the role played by the indirect tradition and the assimilation of the exegetical heritage in grammatical and lexicographical works. Some strands of the ancient and medieval scholarship are here re-evaluated afresh by adopting an interdisciplinary methodology which blends modern editorial techniques developed for ‘problematic’ or ‘non-authorial’ medieval texts with current trends in the history of philology and literary criticism. In their diversity of subject matter and approach the papers collected in the volume give intended readers an excellent overview of the topics of the project.

E-books --- Greek poetry --- History and criticism --- Homer --- Hesiod --- Pindar --- Aeschylus --- Criticism and interpretation