Scholia to Theocritus' Idylls in a fourth-century papyrus

What is it about?

This article contains an edition of a fourth-century papyrus featuring scholarly commentaries to the first Idyll of Theocritus. There follows a string of commentaries line by line, comparing the text in this papyrus with the known scholia of Theocritus, confirming that the papyrus presents some extra material that was either lost or never made it to scholarship beyond the fourth century.

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Why is it important?

Because it contributes new text on an ancient Greek poet and ancient scholarship