• Scholia (redirect from Scholion)
    Scholia (sg.: scholium or scholion, from Ancient Greek: σχόλιον, "comment", "interpretation") are grammatical, critical, or explanatory comments – original...
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  • However, for Epimenides, her father was Oceanus, while according to a scholion on Odyssey 17.208 (calling her "Rhode"), her father was the river-god Asopus...
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    a part of the Catalogue, but rather a mistake on the part of the scholion. A scholion on the Odyssey similarly calls Hellen a son of Deucalion and Pyrrha...
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    quotes the complete scholion (to Euripides, Alcestis 1); the statement of Telesarchus may or may not be cited from Pherecydes. In a scholion to Pindar Pyth...
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    a second son of Creusa and Aeneas: a scholion on the Aeneid names this child Eurybates, while in another scholion, on Lycophron's Alexandra, they are called...
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  • secret. The most extensive sources on the festival are a comment in a scholion on Lucian, explaining the festival, and Aristophanes' play Thesmophoriazusae...
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    with Hera for three hundred years on the island of Samos. According to a scholion on Theocritus' Idylls, Zeus, one day seeing Hera walking apart from the...
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    unattributed entries for cause of festivity: 7 Kislev and 2 Shevat. A later Scholion (commentary) on the Megillat Taanit attributes the 7 Kislev festivity to...
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    Archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen, Book II, ch. 37; see also Book II, ch. 33, Scholion 25 Snorri, Heimskringla, The History of Olav Trygvason, ch. 91, p. 184...
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    541, quoted in Densuşianu 1913. Arrian, Periplus of the Euxine Sea 21; Scholion to Pindar, Nemea 4.79. Pausanias, Description of Greece 3.19.11. Pausanias...
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    (Rowman & Littlefield, 1994), p. 2. Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 681, and scholion, on Demeter and Persephone (the two "Great Goddesses"); Euphorion, fragment...
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    and Ceto. A scholion on Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica, however, cites Hesiod as calling him the son of Typhon, and the same scholion on Apollonius...
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    Tryphiodorus, 635; Quintus Smyrnaeus, 13.422; Lycophron, 360 with the Scholion Pausanias, 10.26.1 & 10.31.1 Homer, Odyssey 4.499 Apollodore, R. Scott...
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    her pet; this is why the cuckoo is seated on her sceptre. According to a scholion on Theocritus' Idylls, when Hera was heading toward Mount Thornax alone...
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    Church of the East Christian Theodore bar Konai in his 8th century Syriac scholion, the Ketba de-Skolion, and the Middle Persian sections of Mani's Shabuhragan...
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    link Nereus with the labours of Heracles was Pherekydes, according to a scholion on Apollonius of Rhodes. During the course of the 5th century BC, Nereus...
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  • History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also the founder of Scholion - Interdisciplinary research center in the Humanities and Jewish Studies...
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    Press, 2003), p. 48 on Diana; p. 128, citing Persius 2.70 and the related scholion; p. 145 on comparison with Greece. Sebesta, "Women's Costume," pp. 533–534...
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    diverging directions from the early 13th century on, at the latest. A scholion in Adam of Bremen's History of the Archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen (written...
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  • Greek: Πλουτώ) was the mother of Tantalus, usually by Zeus, though the scholion to line 5 of Euripides' play Orestes, names Tmolos as the father. According...
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    Aphrodite's son, but this is actually a comparatively late innovation. A scholion on Theocritus's Idylls remarks that the sixth-century BC poet Sappho had...
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    Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, 22.7 γλαύξ, Liddell & Scott Philochorus: Scholion to Aristophanes, Birds 1106. Kraay, C.M. The archaic owls of Athens: classification...
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    permanently erect. Priapus was widely seen as hideous and unattractive. A scholion on Apollonius of Rhodes's Argonautica states that, when Priapus's mother...
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  • flows from the sea called Mare oceanum, and surrounds the whole earth. A scholion in a 15th-century manuscript of Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae...
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    plan ahead will only feel sorrow when calamity strikes. According to a scholion on Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica, Eumelos states that Epimetheus' wife...
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    the Bible. In the 11th century, chronicler Adam of Bremen recorded in a scholion of his Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum that a statue of Thor...
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    between 428 and 425 BC. Müller places it between 420 and 417 BC. A Byzantine scholion to the play suggests that its first production was staged outside Athens...
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  • shown that the scholion currently printed is a medieval hybrid of two independently written commentaries, nicknamed "Scholion O" and "Scholion P", after the...
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    name of the Mesopotamian primordial sea goddess Tiamat. According to a scholion on Apollonius of Rhodes, the fifth-century BC poet Ion of Chios had Thalassa...
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    Press, 2003), p. 48 on Diana; p. 128, citing Persius 2.70 and the related scholion; p. 145 on comparison with Greece. Sebesta, "Women's Costume," pp. 529...
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