Greek, roman and byzantine studies  

Anthony T Edwards

In Hesiod’s a?d?? d’ ??? ??a?? (Erga 317), a?d?? is not a divided concept referring here to the poor man’s shame, but is litotes for its opposite, ??a?de??, which offers to the indolent an easy but short-lived prosperity.

Deborah Steiner

Archilochus’ consolatio takes up the epic association of drinking and drowning and puts it in the context of the symposium in order to meditate on the proper conduct of this fundamental social institution of the polis.

Maria Pavlou

In several odes Pindar is unusually reticent concerning the lineage of the laudandus: these can be explained by individual circumstances, especially when the poem was commissioned by someone other than the family.

Craig A. Gibson

A chreia attested in later sources shows enough points of similitarity with Lucian’s ironic tract on rhetorical education to suggest that he is assuming his readers’ knowledge of a particular school exercise.

Anthony Kaldellis

No event known to Laonikos need be dated later than ca. 1464, and the terminus ante quem is 1468: writing some 25 years earlier than has been thought, he is the first of the extant historians of the Fall, as well as the one who says the most about Ottoman... see more

Demetra Koukouzika,Io Manolessou

Callimachus’ hunting simile for love made its way back into Greek literature during the Cretan Renaissance in the Fortounatos of Foskolos (1655), but via Italian intermediaries, especially Ariosto, rather than directly from Greek.