The History of the Text of Aristophanes

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Preliminary RemarksAn interval of twenty-four centuries separates the scripts that Aristophanes wrote for the first performances of his comedies from the texts of those comedies as they appear, for example, in Wilson (2007b).This chapter attempts to trace the chain of transmission that leads from the former to the latter. 1 The basic process in this chain is that of copying-by hand, for the first nineteen centuries, and thereafter with mechanical, and very recently with electronic, assistance.Copying, however it is performed, is always liable to error.Those who copy texts are normally aware of this, or at least are supervised by persons who are aware of it and are on the lookout for possible errors in the text they are copying.Often an error will be detected and successfully corrected, thanks either to the copyist's or editor's own understanding of

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