Research Guides: Classical Studies, Sources : Fields of Study: Commentaries

Literature : Commentaries

Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics

A good place to start is with the annotated bibliographic entries in the Oxford Bibliographies Online. Below is a PDF file with a list of commentaries as well as a handful of useful ones.

A Handful of Good Commentaries : PDF

Herodotus

Polybius

A Historical Commentary on Polybius (Walbank)

Sophocles

Thucydides

Livy

Tacitus

UC subscribes to many of the Companion Series: Oxford Handbooks -- all of the classical literature titles online, and in print; the Cambridge Companions – in Literature, including Classical, in print and online (click on the green Access button to view the full text; Brill’s Companions, all Classical Studies titles in print and online (click on each title individually then on the blue Read button to access the full text; and the Wiley Blackwell Companion series to Classical Studies.

Dickinson College Commentaries
Handy for high school and college students. Dickinson College Commentaries presents Latin and Greek texts for reading, with explanatory notes, interpretive essays, vocabulary.
Greece & Rome : New Surveys in the Classics
The New Surveys in the Classics are a series of short books dedicated to key themes and concepts in the classical world. They deal with a wide range of topics, from key figures like Homer and Virgil, to subjects such as Greek tragedy, thought and science, women, slavery, Roman religion, and satire. The Library's online subscription covers C. Steel, Roman Oratory (2006), N.J. Lowe, Comedy (2007), N. Livingstone -- G. Nisbet, Epigram (2008), D. Spencer, Roman Landscape (2009), B.A. Sparkes, Greek Art, 2nd. ed. (2010), R. Rutherford, Homer, 2nd ed. (2011), S. Harrison, Horace (2012), and P. Gainsford, Early Greek hexameter poetry (2013).
Haverford Digital Commentary Library: An Aggregator of Open-Access Classical Commentaries
Oberlin Classics: Online Commentaries by Oberlin Faculty and Students