commentary?, treatise?: grammar/philology

Information on CPP 474 (TM 64145)

  • Author

    Herodianus?

  • Mythology

    Typhôs (R), Iolê (Q)

  • Quoted authors

    Aristophanes Equites, Acharnenses; Callimachus; Hesiodus; Ion?; Sophocles, Menander?

  • Proper names

    Aristophanês (R), Kallimachos (R), Menandros (?, R), Typhôs (R), Iolê (Q)

  • Contents

    Commentary on an unidentified poetic work (ed. pr.)? If so, then the poetic work might be Aristophanes, Equites or Pax according to Meliadò. But Meliadò rather thinks that the fragment comes from a treatise on names in -ρα and -ρη, and in -ολη and -ωλη, based on the Καθολικὴ προσῳδία of Herodian or from the Καθολικὴ προσῳδία itself (GG vol. 3, 1 p. 259 and pp. 323-324). There are several authors mentioned and quoted, but they are not always clearly distinguishable from the rest of the text.

  • Bibliography

    H. Maehler, ZPE 4 (1969), p. 114 n. 3 (against the dating in AD 2 - AD 3 of the ed. pr.); CGFP (1973), no. 66, 204; G. Cavallo, JOB 24 (1975), p. 37 (dating in AD 5 - AD 6); E.G. Turner, The Typology of the Early Codex, Univ. of Pennsylv. 1977, p. 117 (no. 328); SH (1983), 298; PCG III 2 (1984), T 126; PCG VI 2 (1998), F * 905; Cl. Meliadò, ZPE 155 (2006), p. 49-54

  • Editio princeps

    P.Ant. 02, 60

  • Hand

    medium-sized to large, upright, markedly bilinear, rounded hand; neat, regular, and rather closely spaced