Zetemata alessandrini negli scoli alle Rane di Aristofane

As shown by a sample of three ancient scholia to Aristophanes’ Frogs which contain exegetic discussions of hellenistic scholars (to ll. 1269, 1422, and 1028), the actual textual set-up of the scholia in the manuscript tradition – often disregarded in the most recent critical editions – allows to a better understanding of the meaning and interlacing of the different opinions of those scholars as well as of the exegetical goals underlying the scholiastic composition