Classical Commentaries: Explorations in a Scholarly Genre

The second part ("Traditions: Commentaries on Specific Authors and Texts") includes a survey of commentaries on Tacitus through the ages, an essay on the challenges of commenting on a fragmentary text, a chapter on the difficulties of writing commentaries in an age of religious and social turmoil, and discussions of how commentators have received and reacted to the work of previous generations of commentators. [...]Sander Goldberg's succinct overview of the entire collection ties together all of the essays and offers a meditation on the future of antiquity.