¹ I would like to thank Richard Martin and the anonymous referee for their helpful comments on this piece.

² Dindorf, G., Scholia Graeca in Homeri Odysseam (Oxford, 1855), 511–12.Google Scholar All subsequent references to the scholia of the Odyssey are to this edition, which remains the most recent with the exception of Ludwich's, A.Scholia in Homeri Odysseas A 1–309 Auctoria et Emendatiora (Hildesheim, 1966)Google Scholar, which covers but a small portion of the whole.

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⁴ See, for example, Heubeck's note on Odyssey 11.568–627 for an argument for the text's integrity based on structural similarities between it and the Nekuia's catalogue of women. Heubeck also lists modern attempts to attack the lines, e.g. Wilamowitz's contention that they are an Orphic interpolation in Homerische Untersuchungen (Berlin, 1884), 109–206.Google Scholar

⁵ Erbse, H., Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem (Berlin, 1969).Google Scholar

⁶ The scholia's other criticisms of the Heracles scene follow shortly after 11.568, at lines 11.601,602,604,616.