7 articles in this issue
Alexander Nikolaev
The image of Argus with countless eyes, suddenly appearing in literature and art ca. 500 B.C., suggests the arrival of knowledge of Persian Mithra, the many-eyed divine guardian and cowherd.
Jonah Radding
Euripides in IA rehabilitates the character of Clytemnestra by evoking, for contrast, Aesch. Ag. and Eur. El., and, for similarities, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter and Semonides’ Bee-woman.
Mogens Herman Hansen
A number of testimonia support the concept of dependent poleis of recognizably different sorts in archaic and classical Greece.
Analogous items in the orators and the inscriptions support the authenticity of the decree quoted by Andocides.
Fabio Acerbi
The corrupt sentence in which Diophantus describes the unknown (Arithm. 1.6) can be cured with a slight emendation that recognizes the wide and non-technical uses of ??????.
David Woods
The eagle countermark may signify Heraclius’ self-presentation as a consul in the rebellion of 610, and may have been imposed by his cousin Nicetas in the course of the Syrian campaign.
Guillermo Galán Vioque
Scaliger’s emendations, published here from his manuscripts and marginalia, often prove to anticipate those of later scholars and should be included in the apparatus of future editions.