\u201cA servizio della verit\ue0\u201d: Didimo il Cieco \u2018lettore\u2019 di Aristotele

The present survey investigates the quotations, references, and mentions of Aristotle\u2019s name and the use of his doctrines in Didymus the Blind\u2019s writings. It is clear from this that the latter had direct knowledge of the Organon and probably also of the Nicomachean Ethics. It is also possible that Didymus had studied other works of Aristotle, but there is less evidence of this. Almost all of the explicit quotations are found in the commentaries on the Psalms and the Ecclesiastes, i.e. in Didymus\u2019 lectures; on the contrary, the commentaries composed to circulate in written form make no explicit reference to Aristotle