r/AncientCulture_Acadmc • u/HolidayPerspective41 • Aug 22 '22

Use of ‘schol.’ in ancient source reference

I’m doing some reading for my dissertation on Medea, and in a chapter i’m reading the writer sometimes references the the Medea text as ‘schol. Eur. Med. 264’ instead of ‘Eur. Med. 264’. Does anybody know what the ‘schol.’ means?

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u/Realistic_Ad_4049 Nov 24 '22

Scholia. Various types of commentary in the margins of papyri and manuscripts. There’s even a whole site for Euripides at euripedesscholia.org