Aeschylus probably left Athens after the success of Oresteia for fear of revenge from the conservative party. The story of the eagle and the tortoise is manifestly absurd, it only says that the poet's corpse was found with its cranium smashed. The assa…

Only through an absolutely necessary textual analysis problems related to the plot of the Greek tragedies can be solved. Three Sophoclean examples are brought here. In all of them microstructural elements allow to solve macrostructural problems: 1. The tr…

The ancients had already perceived as unlikely the story (ll. 559-68) with which Deianeira recalls for the women of the Chorus her encounter with the Centaur Nessus who had tried to possess her in the middle of the river Evenus. This study aims to dr…

The parabatic songs of Aristophanes’ Knights aren’t liturgical songs neither parodic songs: they are a meaningful part of action, in defining the chorus as a character who determines the politic and poetic final victory. All this conclusions c…

After a brief introduction of the debate on the line-attribution of the prologue of Aristophanes' Birds (ll. 1-163), this contribution focuses on the jackdaw and crow guiding the two Athenians: in the fable genre, they refer to different human types, o…

By reviewing the whole exodos of Lysistrata and more specifically the three songs alternatively performed by Spartans and Athenians, this paper tries to highlight the dramatic framework adopted by Aristophanes in order to promote peace between the two…

The article deals with the story of the libretto of an opera based on Aristophanes’ Lysistrata commissioned by Tito Ricordi to the playwright Giovacchino Forzano, for the music of Victor De Sabata. After having recostructed the work of the writer on th…

This essay analyzes the term Geta, as evidenced by the manuscript tradition in verse 577 of Plautus’ Truculentus, opposed to the proper name Cyamus found in vv. 583, 586 and 702. Status quaestionis, metrical problems, textual layout and possibl…

Among the variant readings featured in the manuscript tradition of Plautus’ Stichus 90, editors today do not hesitate to adopt the text witnessed by the Ambrosian palimpsest. In the light of a recent reinterpretation of this passage, however, it …

Papyri often offer useful and sometimes indispensable informations for a better understanding of the variety shows imported from the Greeks to Egypt. In this contribution I intend to follow the thin red thread that unites the documentary and paralet…

The article examines Pasolini's contribution to a renewed approach to the classics in the second half of the Twentieth century, with particular reference to two recent volumes by M.C. Angioni on Pasolini's translation of Aeschylus' Oresteia and b…

Last June Stefano Mazzoni, historian and theater scholar, professor at the University of Florence and collaborator of DeM, passed away. Its cultural profile is outlined in these pages examining the main works, which are also significant for the imp…