Greek, roman and byzantine studies  

Jaime Curbera,David Jordan

Six curse tablets recently excavated at Pydna in Macedonia are published; dating from the fourth century B.C., they are especially rich in illustrating the nomenclature of the region.

Malcolm Heath

A comparative study of the evidence for Greek progymnasmata, the tracts of preliminary exercises to rhetoric, suggests that Theon wrote not in the first century but the fifth, while the tract attributed to Hermogenes may have been written by Minucianus.

John Wortley

The sharply different attitudes to icons versus relics in the age of Iconoclasm had its foundations in a number of scenes in the Bible, which offered influential precedents for the distinctive evaluation of the two.

Filippomaria Pontani

The Cretan scholar Marcus Musurus composed a poem, here published, rendering the Creed in verse; written probably between 1509 and1516, the text shows his virtuosity as a poet and the range of his readings.