Introduction: Byzantine commentaries on ancient Greek texts Baukje van den Berg and Divna Manolova; 1. The politics and practices of commentary in Komnenian Byzantium Panagiotis A. Agapitos; 2. Forging identities between Heaven and Earth: commentaries on Aristotle and authorial practices in eleventh- and twelfth-century Byzantium Michele Trizio; 3. Cultural appropriation and the performance of exegesis in John Tzetzes' scholia on Aristophanes Aglae Pizzone; 4. Uncovering the literary sources of John Tzetzes' Theogony Maria Tomadaki; 5. Odysseus the schedographer Valeria F. Lovato; 6. Eustathios of Thessalonike on comedy and ridicule in Homeric poetry Baukje van den Berg; 7. Geography at school: Eustathios of Thessalonike's Parekbolai on Dionysius Periegetes Inmaculada Pérez Martín; 8. Painting and polyphony: the Christos Paschon as commentary Margaret Mullett; 9. Parodying antiquity for pleasure and learning: the Idyll by Maximos Planoudes Krystina Kubina; 10. Teaching poetry in the early Palaiologan school: Manuel Holobolos' and John Pediasimos' commentaries on Theocritus' Syrinx Paula Caballero Sánchez; 11. Late Byzantine scholia on the Greek classics: what did they comment on? Manuel Moschopoulos on Sophocles' Electra Andrea M. Cuomo; 12. Theodora Raoulaina's autograph codex Vat. gr. 1899 and Aelius Aristides Fevronia Nousia; 13. The reception of Eustathios of Thessalonike's Parekbolai in Arsenios Apostolis' and Erasmus' paroemiographic collections Lorenzo M. Ciolfi.