This authoritative new edition of the ancient scholia to Sophocles' Electra is designed to
replace the corresponding part of the Teubner text published in 1888. It is the first to rely
on a complete scrutiny of the sources of the text and the conjectural activity of scholars but
is also characterised by a fresh methodological approach: the transmission of scholia is prone
to creating different versions of basically the same material and to making conflations of
originally distinct entities in the English preface these transmissional peculiarities guide
the editor in establishing a methodology which is appropriate both for analysing the manuscript
tradition and composing the critical text of the Electra scholia. By applying this working tool
the editor is the first to restore the scholia to the Electra in a textual state which is
arguably the earliest we can recover and is free of contradictions unacceptable repetitions
and hybridisation or blending of elements from different versions. The critical text is
accompanied by a detailed apparatus criticus and is contextualised in its scholarly tradition
by means of a rich collection of parallel passages. Extensive indices are provided at the end
of the book.
