"Scholia vetera in Sophoclis ""Trachinias"". Sammlung griechischer und lateinischer Grammatiker, Band 13"

Scholars have been seeking to understand Sophocles´ Trachiniae for over two millennia. The beginnings of this long tradition of the play´s interpretation are in Hellenistic Alexandria, and are now represented by a series of notes which have survived in the margins of medieval manuscripts. The book offers an English introduction and an authoritative new critical text of these notes based on a thorough review of the manuscript evidence and the best modern scholarship. The critical text is accompanied by a apparatus criticus, and is placed in its scholarly context by means of a rich collection of parallel passages.