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Scholia on the Hymns (Marginal) by Callimachus Scholia

The Scholia on the Hymns of Callimachus are a collection of ancient and Byzantine explanatory notes preserved in manuscripts of Callimachus’s six Hymns. These prose commentaries provide glosses on difficult words, identify mythological references, explain historical context, and offer textual variants. As an accumulated work of multiple, anonymous scholars, the scholia are an essential tool for interpreting Callimachus’s dense and allusive poetry.

The scholia engage directly with the text of the Hymns, and their content includes:

The scholia survive in the margins and between lines of medieval Byzantine manuscripts, such as the Florentine and Paris manuscripts. They represent a fragmented selection from earlier, now-lost commentaries, compiled over centuries by various grammarians.

These scholia are a critical resource for the reception of Callimachus, directly shaping how his work was read in late antiquity and Byzantium. They provide evidence for textual criticism and for reconstructing the Hellenistic literary and cultural context of the poems [2, 3].

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