On Aeschylus' Theoroi fr. 78a Radt (= P.Oxy. 2162). The author suggests: a) how to reconstruct several lost sections, and fill gaps; b) that satyrs were not fixing masks or tablets on the front of the temple of Poseidon, as is commonly believed, but nailing a βασκάνιον, a particular kind of statue used as charm against the evil eye; c) that vv. 11-12 should be assigned to the same character speaking vv.
We possess very little documentation about the work of the Hellenistic philologists on the plays of Aeschylus, even if it is generally agreed that the most important Alexandrian grammarians must have devoted their time to editing and commenting on Aeschylus’ works. Recently, scholars such as C. Meliadò, M. Ercoles and R. Janko have retrieved from the scanty material that has come down to us scraps of information on the philological activity dedicated to the poet in ancient times.
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