Greek, roman and byzantine studies  

Benjamin Sammons

The speeches of Agamemnon at Iliad 4.155 ff. and elsewhere show his calculated and politic attention to the scene's wider audience as well as the individual addressee.

p. J. Finglass

Textual conjectures discovered in manuscripts and printed volumes illustrate the originality and importance of Greek studies in Holland in the 17th century.

Marcel Lysgaard Lech

Aristophanes Eq. 163, applying the military term stiches to the rows of the audience, supports the notion that the seating in the theater was in straight lines rather than curved.

Christopher A. Faraone

Magical texts of various sorts reveal a long-lived genre of apotropaic poems in iambic trimeter rather than the more common dactylic hexameter.

Katarzyna Jazdzewska

The Life is atypical, not a work of simple piety but a courtier's sophisticated literary performance making frequent reference to earlier writings.

Klaas Bentein,Floris Bernard,Marc De Groote,Kristoffel Demoen

Scribes' poems celebrating the accompanying patristic works and sometimes offering the reader guidance are published and discussed.

Antonis K. Petrides

Pachymeres' description of the Scythians and Ethiopians, opposites in the physiognomic tradition, hints at their strength when combined, and implicitly criticizes imperial policy for allowing their recent combination in Mamluk Egypt.