Editing Terence (section)

===The ''didascaliae''===

According to the ''didascaliae,'' each of Terence's plays was originally produced by the acting company of [[Lucius Ambivius Turpio]], and musical accompaniment for each of the plays was provided by a [[aulos|tibicen]] named Flaccus, a slave in the service of a certain Claudius. The traditional and generally accepted chronology of the plays established according to the ''didascaliae'' is as follows:<ref>{{harvnb|Beare|1951|p=86}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Martin|1959|p=23}}</ref><ref name="Prete_p114">{{harvnb|Prete|1961|p=114}}</ref><ref name="Brothers_p10">{{harvnb|Brothers|1988|p=10}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Goldberg|2013|p=11}}</ref>

* 166 BC: ''Andria'' at the Ludi Megalenses
* 165 BC: abortive production of ''Hecyra'' at the Ludi Megalenses
* 163 BC: ''Heauton timorumenos'' at the Ludi Megalenses
* 161 BC: ''Eunuchus'' at the Ludi Megalenses; ''Phormio'' at the Ludi Romani
* 160 BC: ''Adelphoe,'' and second abortive production of ''Hecyra,'' at the funeral games of [[Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus|Aemilius Paullus]]; third (and successful) production of ''Hecyra'' at the Ludi Romani

The ''didascalia'' for each play also identifies its position in the corpus by chronological order. The ''didascaliae'' state that ''Eunuchus'' was the second play (''facta II''), and ''Heauton timorumenos'' was the third (''facta III''), testimony seemingly contradicted by the dates of production, as well as by Donatus' statement that the ''Eunuchus'' was "published third" (''edita tertium'').<ref>{{harvnb|Wessner|1902|p=[https://archive.org/details/quodferturcommen01donauoft/page/267/mode/1up 267]}}</ref> Some scholars have explained the discrepancy by positing an unsuccessful production of ''Eunuchus'' in 165 or 164 BC, or by interpreting the numbering in reference to the order of composition rather than the order of production.<ref name="Brothers_p10"/><ref>{{harvnb|Barsby|1999|p=79}}</ref> The didascalic numbering, seemingly discounting the unsuccessful productions of ''Hecyra,'' reckons it the fifth play.

The ''didascaliae'' also appear to record some information about revival performances at least as late as the 140s. Patrick Tansey has argued that the ''didascalia'' to ''Phormio'' in the codex Bembinus contains garbled names of the consuls in 106 BC, which would be the last attested production of Terence before the Renaissance, though the consuls of 141 BC had similar names.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Tansey |first=Patrick |title=New Light on the Roman Stage: A revival of Terence's ''Phormio'' rediscovered |journal=Rheinisches Museum für Philologie |volume=144 |issue=1 |year=2001 |pages=22–43 |url=http://www.rhm.uni-koeln.de/144/Tansey.pdf |jstor=41234475}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Goldberg|2013|p=14}}</ref>