The Suda

Suda, The (hē Souda, ‘fortress’, formerly referred to as Suidas, as if the name of a person), name of a Greek lexicon or literary encyclopaedia compiled at the end of the tenth century AD and containing many valuable articles on Greek literature and history. It is based partly on earlier lexica (see HESYCHIUS), partly on texts, with scholia, of Homer, Sophocles, Aristophanes, and the Palatine Anthology which the compiler consulted himself, and partly on excerpts made in earlier times from the works of historians, grammarians, and biographers.