Greek, roman and byzantine studies  

Davide Morassi

In voting for a campaign, the assembly’s instructions to generals specified objectives and resources but, except in unusual cases, left to the generals substantial leeway to decide about actions in the field.

Luca Cadili

Rather than Thebes as ???[? µe?a????µ??], restore p?????at??], which Philodamus derived from Od. 11.275 p?????at?? T?´ß?, an innovation for lyric.

Simone Rendina

Plutarch’s comments of Pyrrhus’ contempt for peace, often considered out of place, are consistent with his comments in other Lives and with his larger view of the instability of the age of the Diadochi.

Paul Johstono,Michael J. Taylor

The reported topography of the battle (168 B.C.) places it near Kitros, and the maneuvers described suggest hasty deployment by both sides, an unintended ‘meeting engagement’.

Anna Monte

The papyrus anthology of prescriptions, here published in full, shows knowledge of technical vocabulary and of Egyptian medical practices; it may derive from Tebtunis and its temple library.

Tomás Fernández,José Maksimczuk

Distinctive ways can be charted whereby the ‘same’ fragment has entered different anthologies: one copying another, both copying a common source, ‘polygenetic excerption’, or contamination by a further source.