Codex Ravennas 429 of Ravenna’s Classense Library, dated to the mid-tenth century, is the oldest manuscript to preserve all eleven extant comedies of Aristophanes. About a quarter of the Lysistrata and the entirety of the Thesmophoriazusae survive the medieval period only in this codex and copies made from it.
Codex Ravennas 429 of Ravenna’s Classense Library, dated to the mid-tenth century, is the oldest manuscript to preserve all eleven extant comedies of Aristophanes. About a quarter of the Lysistrata and the entirety of the Thesmophoriazusae survive the medieval period only in this codex and copies made from it.
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