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Supplementum Grammaticum Graecum 8
Didymus Alexandrinus
Series: - Supplementum Grammaticum Graecum, Volume: 8
Author:
Didymus of Alexandria (also known as Chalcenterus, âbronze-gutsâ, for his outstanding ability to âdigestâ and rework the scholarship of his predecessors) played a pivotal role in the understanding and reception of many classical Greek authors, both in antiquity and in modern times. His commentaries on the comic playwrights influenced ancient and modern scholarship alike and constitute to this day an invaluable repository of information for the study of ancient Greek comedy, the history of Hellenistic philology, and more. This is the first critical edition (with English translation and commentary) of all the extant fragments of Didymusâ commentaries on the comic playwrights.
Federica Benuzzi, Ph.D. (2021), Università Caâ Foscari â Venezia, is a Post-doc within the ERC-Project PURA at that university. She has published articles and contributions regarding Hellenistic scholarship on comedy, including the chapter Didymus and Comedy in the volume Didymus and Graeco-Roman Learning (BICS 63).
"When establishing the critical text of the scholia transmitting excerpts of Didymean exegesis, Benuzzi presents all extant material on the same word or phrase as a single textual unit, arranging it in a form that respects as far as possible the way it is transmitted by the manuscripts. (...) "In conclusion, this book not only offers a substantial contribution to the study of Didymusâ exegesis of Attic Comedy, but provides its readers with a reliable tool for investigating Aristophanesâ text and the problematic but fascinating crowd of ancient commentators on it."
Pietro Berardi in BMCR 2025.02.45
Pietro Berardi in BMCR 2025.02.45
The book would be of interest to specialists of (as well as to under- and post-graduate students interested in) the history of Classical scholarship, ancient Greek comedy, Greek lexicography and scholiography, and related topics (and should thus be acquired by the academic institutions and libraries they frequent).