10 articles in this issue
Maria Pavlou
The poem represents a specific type of paean, which Athens sought to promulgate as intrinsically Athenian in an attempt to forge its identity as the cultural leader of the Ionians and the Greeks in general.
John Philip Harris
Given Aeschylus’ other citations of fable, this passage, the earliest reference to the swan’s prophetic final song, probably derives from orally transmitted fable, later reflected in the Aesopic “The Swan and his Owner.”
Richard Fernando Buxton
By contrasting Corinth’s two roles, savior of Athens in 504 and victim of Athens’ later empire, Herodotus suggests a complex interrelation between the Panhellenic ideal of freedom and the selfish advancement of Athenian interests.
Martin Gansten
The standard interpretation of two early horoscopes, attributed to Balbillus, can be corrected on the basis of both textual evidence and Balbillus’ astrological methods concerning the prediction of life-span.
Sophia Xenophontos
Plutarch quotes Attic comedy as evidence, but he also uses both invective and stereotypes from comedy in order to illustrate and judge the character of his protagonists, as seen in the Lives of Demetrius, Antony, Pericles, and Fabius Maximus.
Lucia Floridi
The similarities between skoptic epigram and popular joke literature are revealed in their common themes and in their structure, which suggests the existence of a shared comic scheme.
Zeidoun al-Muheisen,Mohammad Nassar
The basilica, dedicated in A.D. 528, is decorated with mosaic floors of elaborate and original geometric designs.
Joan B. Burton
Eugenianus’ novel, exploiting ancient bucolic poems, evokes first Theocritus and then Longus in order to move the portrayal of Eros from love as tormenting to love as propitious.
Marios Philippides
The dominant version of the poem, lamenting the Fall in 1453, is a secondary development from an earlier version, reported by Pouqueville, which probably concerned instead the celebration of the union of churches in 1452.
Anthony Kaldellis
Laonikos cannot be shown to have used any of the written Greek sources that have been proposed: he relied instead largely on oral information, to which the circles in which he moved gave him wide access.