›Hypomnemata‹ on Papyrus: Forms and Functions of Ancient Commentaries

This book offers the first comprehensive assessment of ancient scholarship on papyrus. The papyrological evidence is examined both in terms of content and material (i.e. paleographical and bibliological) features. This wide-ranging investigation sheds fresh light not only on the transmitted texts themselves, but also on their context of production, use, and storekeeping, and elucidates the influence that these papyri had on subsequent – medieval and modern – exegesis.

As a result, this book will appeal to a wide range of classicists interested in papyrology and scholarship broadly speaking, and to anyone interested in culture transmission and the formation of the modern approaches to ancient literature.