Sergio Traversa | PhD Candidate | Università degli Studi Roma Tre

Seminar Chair: Dr. Pietro Berardi (Università degli Studi di Bari ‘Aldo Moro’)

The Aristarchean principle of ‘clarifying Homer from Homer’ is particularly well-documented within the corpus of the scholia vetera to the Iliad. This talk aims to shed light upon formal characteristics, context, and hermeneutic function of some quotations from Aristophanes found within the scholia vetera in Aristophanem, in order to verify whether and how the Aristarchean principle applies to ancient exegesis on Aristophanes too.