Career
The surname "bronze-guts" came from his indefatigable industry: he was said to have written so many books that he was unable to recollect what he had written in earlier ones, and so often contradicted himself. (Athenaeus records that he wrote 3500 books Seneca gives the figure of 4000) As a result, he acquired the additional nickname βιβλιολάθης "book-forgetter".
He is chiefly important as having introduced Alexandrian learning to the Romans.
Didymus is a lead character in Michael Livingston"s 2015 historical fantasy novel The Shards of Heaven. Scholia on the Iliad:Erbse, H. 1969-1988, Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem, 7 volumes
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Didymus" work reconstructed from the Iliad scholia:Schmidt, M. 1964, Didymi Chalcenteri grammatici Alexandrini fragmenta quae supersunt omnia, reprint (Amsterdam)
The commentary on Demosthenes:,Didymos: On Demosthenes, edited with a translation by Philip Harding, 2006 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK).