- The Pindar Scholia

Birth of Pindar

Pindar (Πίνδαρος) is said by Stephanus of Byzantium to have be born in the Boeotian village of Cynoscephalae. The supposed birth-date of 518 is worked back from Pythian 10 which he completed around his 20^th year for Hippokleas of Thessaly for his victory in the boys' diaulos (foot race) in the Pythians games of 498 BCE. For more on his birth and life, see the ancient Vitae on this site.

c. 518 BCE

Beginnings

Both Pythian 6 and Pythian 12 have been dated to the Pythian games of 490 BCE and are the earliest verifiable epinikia in our collection.

490 BCE

76th Olympiad

A high point in Pindar's career, being commissioned for odes in celebration of the victories of Theron of Akragas (O.2-3: four-horse race), Hieron of Syracuse (O.1: single-horse race), and Hagesidamos of Western Lokroi (O.10-11: Boy's Boxing).

476 BCE

Death of Pindar

Tradition holds that Pindar lived around 80 years. We know at least from the late date of Pythian 8 this tradition has some basis in fact.

c. 438 BCE

Pindar -> Alexandria

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2018-02-23

Alexandria

2018-02-23

Didymus

2018-02-23

2nd - 5th cent. C.E.

2018-02-23

Byzantine MSS

2018-02-23

ms B

Vaticanus gr. 1312

end of the 12^th cent. CE

ms G

Gottingensis philol. 29

13^th cent. CE

ms T

Vaticanus 121

1260-1280 CE

mss F, N, & P

ms F = Laurentianus 32.33
ms N = Ambrosianus E 103 sup.
ms P = Parisinus 2403 (V in Mommsen)

end of the 13^th cent. CE

mss C, E, & O

ms C = Parisinius 2774
ms E = Laurentianus 32.37
ms O = Leidensis Q 4

c. 1300 CE

mss A, D, Q, & U

ms A = Ambrosianus C 222 inf.
ms D = Laurentianus 32.52
ms Q = Laurentius Q 4
ms U = Vindobonensis

beginning of the 14^th cent. CE

ms H

Vaticanus 41

beginning of the 14^th cent. CE

ms L

Vaticanus 902

beginning of the 14^th cent. CE

ms K

Vaticanus 42

14^th cent. CE

ms R

Vaticanus Urbinas 14

third-quarter of the 15^th cent. CE

ms M, Y, & θ

ms M = Perusinus B 43
ms Y = Marcianus 475
ms θ = Ambrosianus C 22 sup. (Thomanus)

end of the 15^th cent. CE

First Publications

2018-02-23

Drachmann Edition

Anders Bjørn Drachmann publishes his 3-volume edition of the Pindar scholia.

1903-1927

A fateful encounter

The architect of this site first meets the Pindar scholia in an undergrad class on Pindar with Dr. Karl Maurer at the University of Dallas. He promptly dismissed them as too difficult to understand. Kept seeing references to them in graduate studies of Pindar. Sent of a list of 10 dissertation topics to his old undergrad mentor of which the Pindar scholia were among them.

Spring 2003

Translating Drachmann

As part of the work on an original work on the dissertation, Drachmann's 3-vol. edition of the Scholia Vetera is categorized (in a system since abandoned) and much of the text is translated for ease of reference. First notes on a updated edition are plotted.

2010-2012

Re-thinking the nature of the Pindar Scholia

Research into the Homer Multitext Project and other theories of textual criticism outside Classic lead to a whole new method of viewing the Pindar scholia.

2019-present

¡WORK IN PROGRESS!

Pindar through the Years

Birth of Pindar

Beginnings

76th Olympiad

Death of Pindar

Pindar -> Alexandria

2018-02-23

Alexandria

Didymus

2nd - 5th cent. C.E.

Byzantine MSS

ms B

ms G

ms T

mss F, N, & P

mss C, E, & O

mss A, D, Q, & U

ms H

ms L

ms K

ms R

ms M, Y, & θ

First Publications

Drachmann Edition

A fateful encounter

Translating Drachmann

Re-thinking the nature of the Pindar Scholia

2022