And it is this very number which enables us to get some inkling of the way material is endlessly reworked, like ancient stones reused for a succession of new buildings. And the 'building-blocks' of a commentary can also be used to create a series of particularly full scholia, as has also happened in the case of the extensive scholia on Plato's Gorgias , which show many features of Olympiodorus' extant commentary on the work. Of course they may have had even more in common with some other commentary, but in this case none survive. The scholia on the Isagoge occupy pages 1-130, those on the Categories pp. There follow a series of diagrams from the two sets of scholia, an index locorum, an index of proper names, and a substantial index verborum extending from p. 261 to p. 293.
Presentation is on the whole a credit.
My only regret is that the book does not afford to Share the opportunity to share more thoughts with his readers, both general and detailed, about the nature of late Alexandrian Neoplatonism and its reception in the ninth and tenth centuries. I apologize that I have had to opt for a notice rather than a full review, but I believe that the proper test for a collection of scholia, short of painstakingly working through the manuscript oneself, is in its use over a period of time. Return to Contents Electronic Antiquity Vol.