“
When she states (129) that “Aristophanes’ plays are nearly always named after their choruses”, she is speaking only of the extant dramas; for the forty canonical plays the number is more than a dozen. For the other major Old comic poets, the figures are: Kratinos (6/25), Eupolis (3/14), Pherecrates (8/20), Platon (17/30).
—
Così Ian Storey, nella recensione di Nikoletta Kanavou, Aristophanes’ Comedy of Names: a Study of Speaking Names in Aristophanes. Sozomena: Studies in the Recovery of Ancient Texts 8., Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2011, di cui appunto le statistiche finali:
(Source: bmcr.brynmawr.edu)
