Homeric scholarship
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Homeric scholarship is the study of any Homeric topic, especially the two large surviving epics, the Iliad and Odyssey. It is currently part of the academic discipline of classical studies. The subject is one of the oldest in education.
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 221, showing scholia from Iliad XXI
Library of St. Mark's, Venice, home of Venetus A.
Part of the Parthenon Frieze, depicting the Panathenaic Festival. Elgin marble, located in the British Museum.
Site of the Academy in Athens.
Scholia
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Scholia are grammatical, critical, or explanatory comments – original or copied from prior commentaries – which are inserted in the margin of the manuscript of ancient authors, as glosses. One who writes scholia is a scholiast. The earliest attested use of the word dates to the 1st century BC.
Ernst Maass, Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem Townleyana (1887), a collection of scholia of Homer's Iliad