I. Introduction

II. Transmission and Status of the Text

1. Editorial Practices of Stobaeus and the Gnomological Tradition

2. Preliminary Assessment of the Status of the Text

3. Evidence from the Scholia to Lucian

a) Scholion in Bis Accusatus 22

b) Scholion in Vitarum Auctio 21

4. The Value of Stobaeus as Evidence for the Text

III. Authorship of the Doxography

1. Stobaeus' Quotation from "The Epitome of Didymus"

2. Evidence for Common Authorship

a) Dates of Composition

b) Arrangement and Format

c) Methodological Characteristics

3. Identity of Author and Reconstruction of Writings

4. Historical Identity and Life of Arius Didymus

5. The State of the Question

IV. Epilog

V. Bibliography

VI. Indices