The edition is a major break-through, and Cesaretti and Ronchey are to be applauded for making this splendid text available to all those interested in the history of Byzantine scholarship, the intellectual climate in the later twelfth century, and the reception of hymnody in the Comnenian educational system.

Paolo Cesaretti and Silvia Ronchey, eds. Eustathii Thessalonicensis exegesis in canonem iambicum pentecostalem. Recensuerunt indicibusque instruxerunt. Supplementa Byzantina, Bd 10. Berlin; München; Boston: De Gruyter, 2014.

From Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR). Review by Marc D. Lauxtermann, Exeter College, Oxford