Aristarchus in his own words? What his ‘most secure’ fragments can tell us about Aristarchus’ commentaries and their transmission

Abstract

As is well known, we have lost Aristarchus ’ original works and rely only on excerpta , mostly preserved in scholia and lexica dating back to the Byzantine period. The richest sources are the scholia maiora to Homer, especially those in the famous codex Venetus A (tenth century CE )