The " Megala Erga " ( Ancient Greek : Μέγαλα Ἔργα ), or " Great Works ", is a now fragmentary didactic poem that was attributed to the Greek oral poet Hesiod during antiquity. Only two brief direct quotations can be attributed to the work with certainty, but it was likely similar to the Hesiodic Works and Days , with the " Megala ", "great", of the title implying that it was longer than the extant poem. As such, the Megala Erga would appear to have the same relation to the Works and Days as does the Megalai Ehoiai to the Catalogue of Women .
11-663: Although the remains of the poem found in other ancient authors are meager, it can be said that the Megala Erga appears to have been concerned with both morality and the conveyance of more-or-less practical information like the extant Hesiodic poem upon which its title drew. The scholia to the Myth of the Ages in the Works and Days , à propos of the Race of Silver ( WD 128), reports that in
22-410: A publication now in the public domain : Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). " Scholium ". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. Lactantius Placidus Lactantius Placidus (c. 350 – c. 400 AD) was the presumed author of a commentary on Statius 's poem Thebaid . Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel considered him to be the same person as Luctatius Placidus,
33-720: The Homeric Iliad , especially those found in the 10th-century manuscripts discovered by Villoison in 1781 in the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice (see further Venetus A , Homeric scholarship ), which are based on Aristarchus and his school. The scholia on Hesiod , Pindar , Sophocles , Aristophanes and Apollonius Rhodius are also extremely important. In Latin , the most important are those of Servius on Virgil ; of Acro and Porphyrio on Horace ; and of Donatus on Terence . Also of interest are
44-486: The Iliad ). The practice of compiling scholia continued to late Byzantine times, outstanding examples being Archbishop Eustathius ' massive commentaries to Homer in the 12th century and the scholia recentiora of Thomas Magister , Demetrius Triclinius and Manuel Moschopoulos in the 14th . Scholia were altered by successive copyists and owners of the manuscript, and in some cases, increased to such an extent that there
55-495: The Megala Erga a genealogy for silver was given: it was a descendant of Gaia . The other securely attributed fragment resembles many of the gnomic utterances that characterize the Works and Days : If someone sowed evils, he would reap evil profits; if he suffered what he committed, the judgement would be straight εἰ κακά τις σπείραι, κακὰ κέρδεά <κεκ'> ἀμήσειεν· εἴ κε πάθοι, τά τ' ἔρεξε, δίκη κ' ἰθεῖα γένοιτο Other fragments that have been tentatively assigned to
66-611: The Narrationes . The commentary on Statius has been edited by Robert Dale Sweeney, Lactantii Placidi in Statii Thebaida commentum . Vol. 1: Anonymi in Statii Achilleida commentum. Fulgentii ut fingitur Planciadis super Thebaiden commentariolum . Teubner, Stuttgart 1997 (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana), ISBN 3-8154-1823-2 . This article about an Ancient Roman writer
77-416: 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. Ancient scholia are important sources of information about many aspects of the ancient world, especially ancient literary history . The earliest scholia, usually anonymous, date to the 5th or 4th century BC (such as the scholia minora to
88-519: The ostensible author of a medieval Latin glossary titled Glossae Luctatii Placidi grammatici ("Glosses of Luctatius Placidus the Grammarian"). Some authors also attribute an anonymous work titled Narrationes fabularum quae in Ov. Metam. occurrunt to Lactantius, though Franz Bretzigheimer argued against this view, on the basis that the commentator on Statius lacks evidence of Christian attitudes seen in
99-411: The poem concern the strengths man possesses at different points in his life (fr. 321), religious practices (fr. 322) and filial piety (fr. 323). Scholia Scholia ( sg. : scholium or scholion , from Ancient Greek : σχόλιον , "comment", "interpretation") are grammatical , critical, or explanatory comments – original or copied from prior commentaries – which are inserted in
110-579: The scholia on Juvenal attached to the good manuscript P; while there are also scholia on Statius , especially associated with the name Lactantius Placidus . Some ancient scholia are of sufficient quality and importance to be labelled "commentaries" instead. The existence of a commercial translation is often used to distinguish between "scholia" and "commentaries". The following is a chronological list of ancient commentaries written defined as those for which commercial translations have been made: [REDACTED] This article incorporates text from
121-453: Was no longer room for them in the margin, and it became necessary to make them into a separate work. At first, they were taken from one commentary only, and subsequently from several. This is indicated by the repetition of the lemma ("headword"), or by the use of such phrases as "or thus", "alternatively", "according to some", to introduce different explanations, or by the explicit quotation of different sources. The most important are those on
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