Ricerc@Sapienza

Early Christianity was heir to the archival practice and discourse of Greek and Roman societies, in which public and private archives enjoyed a great deal of consideration. Even before creating their own archives, Christian congregations, when becoming a structured society, adhered to the archival discourse of their times, and the mention of archives in their writings served apologetic and theological aims.

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.

Eratosthenes in the schol. on Aristophanes’ Frogs 1263c Chantry polemicizes against some “false Atticists” (???????????); the point under discussion is not clear be- cause the text is corrupt. I argue that the false Atticists read in the line the words ??? ????, and that our scholium can be connected to other fragments of Eratosthenes that discuss irregular uses of the dual number.