A checklist of the testimonia and fragments of Didymus

This Checklist aims to collect the testimonia to Didymus’ life and references to all extant fragments of his works. It is not, and could not have been, a proper edition to supersede the one published by Moritz Schmidt in 1854; the latter endeavour we leave to guts more brazen than ours. But we believe that a Checklist of fragments, organised by works, will be a useful instrument for those working on Didymus in the interim. Scholars will be able to have as complete an overview as possible of the evidence for Didymus’ output and to cite any fragment of it in a simple and unambiguous way.We have only included those fragments which are explicitly attributed to Didymus by an ancient source, though we have sought to remark when other sources preserve the same information without attribution. While this meant leaving out much that is probably or certainly Didymean (one need only think of Didymus’ quarter of the Iliadic VMK, or the doxographies in the Pindar scholia), we believe that securely attributed material is a safer starting point for the interpretative and comparative work that will turn up more. We have, however, included two fragments where the source does not cite Didymus by name, but does cite a title which is attested among his works. In these cases, the number is prefaced by an asterisk as a mark of uncertainty (*38, *49). When the source cites both Didymus and the title of the work, the number is prefaced by a circlet (°1, °2, °3, etc.).