7 articles in this issue
Henry Spelman
The parabasis of the Danaids asserted a literary history, the growth of comedy from a primitive stage of indifference when the chorus prioritized stealing food over producing a good show.
Janek Kucharski
Hyperides Eux. 28 and schol. Aeschin. 1.64, contradictory as to the prosecution of Aristophon, refer not to two different trials but to one, probably an eisangelia, for misconduct as a general.
Thomas Kuhn-Treichel
The letters and the poems differ in their portrayals of his suffering, philosophical versus lamenting, reflecting the literary genres he has in mind, epistolary versus epic-tragic.
Tianqin Ge
Rather than attacking Aristotle for not attributing efficient causality to the unmoved mover, Syrianus can be seen as more favorable, maintaining that Aristotle himself implies such causality without expressly saying so.
Johannes Haubold
The sources can be identified, a liturgical hymn, a homily of Basil the Great, and Gregory’s funeral oration on Basil, invoked in defense of stylistic obscurity, Eustathius’ contribution to contemporary debates about canons of style.
Gang Wu
The combined evidence shows that Byzantine weavers normally employed a simple two-bar vertical loom with various accessories, and that this was sufficient for various materials, sizes, and qualities.
Mihail Mitrea
The monastic hagiographies by Philotheos Kokkinos (14th cent.) are animated by Hesychasm as they seek to illustrate how kinship ties could be transmuted into spiritual ties through the hesychast way of life.