sicut commentatores loquuntur
Authorship and Commentaries on Poetry / Autorproblematik und antike Dichterexegese
Edited by Ute Tischer Edited by Thomas Kuhn-Treichel Edited by Stefano Poletti
This volume examines commentaries and scholia on poetry in terms of authorship and ‘authoriality’, and explores the tension between their heteronomous and collective nature and their need for authority
Ancient commentaries on poetry – due to their heteronomous nature, their miscellaneous character, and the fact that most of them are transmitted in abridged and anonymous form – are usually not considered ‘authorial’ texts in the same way as poems or literary prose are. On the other hand, as didactic texts, they rely on authority to convey their interpretation, and they also often seem to have been perceived as products of authorial activity, as paratexts, references and pseudepigraphic attributions demonstrate. The aim of this volume is to explore this tension and to examine commentaries and scholia on poetry in terms of authorship and ‘authoriality’. The contributions use several Latin and Greek corpora as case studies to shed light on how these texts were read, how they display authorial activity themselves, and how they fulfil their function as didactic works. They provide reflections on the relationship of author, authorship, and authority in ‘authorless’ traditions, explore how authorial figures and authorial viewpoints emerge in an implicit manner in spite of the stratified nature of commentaries, investigate the authorial roles adopted by commentators, compilers and scribes, and elucidate how commentators came to be perceived as authors in other exegetic traditions.
- Edited by Ute Tischer
- Edited by Thomas Kuhn-Treichel
- Edited by Stefano Poletti
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