• 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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