This article proposes to consider medieval textbooks, designed for the study of Greek, as major sources for historical sociolinguistic analyses on texts written in (high-register) Medieval Greek. It additionally discusses some aspects of the definition of historical sociolinguistics as a discipline, and stresses the importance of recovering the speech community's perspective on Medieval Greek.
This article publishes an annotated edition of a previously unknown account of the myth of Procne and Philomela. It is about a relatively long scholion on Soph. El. 147-149 preserved in the Moschopulean manuscript of Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB), Phil. gr. 161 (Diktyon 71275) (= Xr), copied by Konstantinos ὁ Κετζᾶς (ho Ketzas) in 1412. The scholion will be examined in the context of the Moschopulean manuscripts of Sophocles. The narrative will be compared with other Greek and Latin accounts of the myth of Procne and Philomela, emphasizing the characteristics of the scholion. While direct parallels to other sources cannot be spotted and its origin remains unknown, Xr's scholion displays similarities to the Trikilinian scholia on Aristophanes' Aves 212e, α and β (HOLWERDA 1991), Tzetzes' scholion on Hesiod's
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