About Scholia
Scholia are the notes that ancient and medieval readers wrote in the margins of their books. This library presents public-domain texts in their original languages, with an English translation where one is available, and allows commentary on individual passages.
The catalogue is arranged as a synchronoptic chart, after the nineteenth-century charts of history: time runs from left to right on a uniform scale, and traditions occupy separate rows where they overlap in time.
The texts are transcribed from public-domain printed editions. All are free to read, and no account is required.
To cite the library in a paper, use the citation below. Every work, section, gloss and reply has its own cite link in the reader, and its link opens directly at the passage it names.
Commentary
Glosses are comments attached to a specific section of a text. Anyone can read them. Writing them is currently limited to invited members.