Scholia are the annotations found in medieval manuscripts of Greek authors. They are found in the margins and between the lines of a primary text, or occasionally gathered in a separate codex or section of a codex. The annotations represent an amalgamation of commentary and glosses made over a long period of time, from the 2nd century BCE to the Renaissance, and designed for a wide spectrum of users, from professional scholars and advanced teachers to learners using the primary text as a means of learning classical Greek vocabulary, grammar, and style.

This edition is part of a long-term, open-ended project to provide a more extensive accounting of the annotations on the tragedies of Euripides than ever before. This book provides an edition of the prefatory material (argumenta) and scholia on the first 500 lines of Orestes: about 9000 items drawn from over 30 manuscripts.
This is eBook version of the online edition of scholia at EuripidesScholia.org, covering Release 1 (2020) with the annotations on Euripides, Orestes 1–500. This version is intended for digital preservation purposes. Updates and greater functionality are available at the online site.

This course aims to introduce students to the rich diversity of human culture from antiquity to the early 17th century. In this course, we will explore human culture in its myriad expressions, focusing on the study of literary, religious and philosophical texts as ways of narrating, symbolizing, and commenting on all aspects of human social and material life. We will work comparatively, reading texts from various cultures: Mesopotamian, Greek, Judeo-Christian, Chinese, Indian, and Muslim. Throughout the semester, we will be asking questions like: How have different cultures imagined themselves? What are the rules that they draw up for human behavior? How do they represent the role of the individual in society? How do they imagine 'universal' concepts like love, family, duty? How have their writers and artists dealt with encounters with other cultures and other civilizations?

This site includes a collection of public domain texts, mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation.

From Catullus to Horace, the tradition of Latin erotic poetry produced works of literature which are still read throughout the world. Ovid's Amores, written in the first century BC, is arguably the best-known and most popular collection in this tradition.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Life of Ovid
Chapter 2: The Amores
Chapter 3: The Manuscript Tradition of Ovid's Amores by Bart Huelsenbeck, with the assistance of Dan Plekhov
Chapter 4: Select Bibliography
Chapter 5: Scansion
Chapter 6: Epigram: preface from the author
Chapter 7: Amores 1.1: Ovid finds his muse
Chapter 8: Amores 1.2: Conquered by Cupid
Chapter 9: Amores 1.3: Just give me a chance
Chapter 10: Amores 1.4: Secret signs
Chapter 11: Amores 1.5: The siesta
Chapter 12: Amores 1.6: On the doorstep
Chapter 13: Amores 1.7: Violence and love
Chapter 14: Amores 1.8: The bad influence
Chapter 15: Amores 1.9: Love and war
Chapter 16: Amores 1.10: Love for sale
Chapter 17: Amores 1.11: Sending a message
Chapter 18: Amores 1.12: Shooting messengers
Chapter 19: Amores 1.13: Oh how I hate to get up in the morning
Chapter 20: Amores 1.14: Bad hair
Chapter 21: Amores 1.15: Poetic immortality
Full vocabulary for Ovid's Amores, Book 1

Extract from Ovid's 'Theban History' -- This course book offers a wide-ranging introduction, the original Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and an extensive commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Gildenhard and Zissos's incisive commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at AS and undergraduate level. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis to encourage critical engagement with Ovid's poetry and discussion of the most recent scholarly thought.

Table of Contents
Introduction

1. Ovid and His Times
2. Ovid's Literary Progression: Elegy to Epic
3. The Metamorphoses: A Literary Monstrum
3a. Genre Matters
3b. A Collection of Metamorphic Tales
3c. A Universal History
3d. Anthropological Epic
3e. A Reader's Digest of Greek and Latin Literature
4. Ovid's Theban Narrative
5. The Set Text: Pentheus and Bacchus
5a. Sources and Intertexts
5b. The Personnel of the Set Text
6. The Bacchanalia and Roman Culture
Text

Commentary

511–26: Tiresias' Warning to Pentheus
527–71: Pentheus' Rejection of Bacchus
531–63: Pentheus' Speech
572–691: The Captive Acoetes and his Tale
692–733: Pentheus' Gruesome Demise
Appendices

1. Versification
2. Glossary of Rhetorical and Syntactic Figures

This is a collection of primary sources on Roman games and spectacles in their various forms, created for a second-year undergraduate class on spectacles in Greece and Rome at the University of British Columbia. This book is intended for use in upper-level academic studies. Content Warning: The content of this book contains animal cruelty and animal death, blood, classism, death, sexual assault, violence, and other mature subject matter and potentially distressing material.

For the Classical Studies course: Gladiators, Games, and Spectacle in the Greek and Roman World -- History, development, and social function of various forms of spectacle in ancient Greece and Rome, from the Olympic games to the Roman arena.

This course book offers a portion of the original Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and a commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Owen's and Gildenhard's incisive commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at both A2 and undergraduate level. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis and historical background to encourage critical engagement with Tacitus' prose and discussion of the most recent scholarly thought.

Table of Contents
1. Preface and acknowledgements

2. Introduction

2.1 Tacitus: life and career
2.2 Tacitus' times: the political system of the principate
2.3 Tacitus' oeuvre: opera minora and maiora
2.4 Tacitus' style (as an instrument of thought)
2.5 Tacitus' Nero-narrative: Rocky-Horror-Picture Show and Broadway on the Tiber
2.6 Thrasea Paetus and the so-called ‘Stoic opposition'
3. Latin text with study questions and vocabulary aid

4. Commentary

Section 1: Annals 15.20–23
(i) 20.1–22.1: The Meeting of the Senate
(ii) 22.2: Review of striking prodigies that occurred in AD 62
(iii) 23.1–4: Start of Tacitus' account of AD 63: the birth and death of Nero's daughter by Sabina Poppaea, Claudia Augusta
Section 2: Annals 15.33–45 (AD 64)
(i) 33.1–34.1: Nero's coming-out party as stage performer
(ii) 34.2–35.3: A look at the kind of creatures that populate Nero's court – and the killing of an alleged rival
(iii) 36: Nero considers, but then reconsiders, going on tour to Egypt
(iv) 37: To show his love for Rome, Nero celebrates a huge public orgy that segues into a mock-wedding with his freedman Pythagoras
(v) 38–41: The fire of Rome
(vi) 42–43: Reconstructing the Capital: Nero's New Palace
(vii) 44: Appeasing the Gods, and Christians as Scapegoats
(viii) 45: Raising of Funds for Buildings
5. Bibliography

6. Visual aids

6.1 Map of Italy
6.2 Map of Rome
6.3 Family Tree of Nero and Junius Silanus
6.4 Inside the Domus Aurea