didaskaliai (διδασκαλίαι) : dih-dah-skah-LEE-eye

(Greek: derived from the verb διδάσκειν, the singular didaskalía has the general meaning of ‘teaching’, or ‘instruction’). The Greek plural noun didaskaliai (instructions) came to refer to records of dramatic performances, containing names of authors and dates, in the form of the original inscriptions or as later published by Alexandrian scholars.