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The Title(s) of Menander’s Sikyonioi

The title of Menander’s Sikyonioi has long posed major critical challenges. While the earliest sources, the colophon of the Sorbonne papyrus (third century BCE) and a wall painting from Ephesus (second century CE), attest to the masculine plural title Σικυώνιοι, later indirect sources quoting fragments from the play transmit the masculine singular title Σικυώνιος; two indirect sources also testify to the existence of a feminine singular title Σικυωνία. It is now quite widely agreed upon that Σικυώνιοι is the correct title for the play, not least because it is the one used in the earliest testimonia. Still, two important questions remain a matter of contention even in the most recent scholarship.