Academia.eduAcademia.edu

Didymus and Comedy

2020, Didymus and Graeco-Roman Learning (BICS 63.2)

Didymus’ commentaries on the comic playwrights and his Comic Vocabulary responded to the interests of the readership of Attic Comedy primarily in two ways: by summarising the opinions of previous scholars and by offering a wide typological range of explanations, useful also to less specialised readers. Although the grammarian’s exegesis of comedy is now preserved only through quotations (mainly in the scholia to Aristophanes), it is still possible to identify the main features and interests of Didymus’ interpretive work and highlight its relevance for both ancient and contemporary readers of Greek comedy.

Loading...

Loading Preview

Sorry, preview is currently unavailable. You can download the paper by clicking the button above.