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Volume 47 Number 1 Year 2007

6 articles in this issue 

Jonathan P. Zarecki

The "good eris" in Works and Days is so presented as to parallel Pandora, who is seen as bringing about evils but who yet was the stimulus to labor that is an ethical imperative.

Pags. 5 - 29  

Charles W. Fornara,David C. Yates

Harpocration's representation of Philochorus' statements about the making of pompeia in Athens cannot be an exact quotation and cannot come from his Atthis , but more likely from his antiquarian writings.

Pags. 31 - 37  

Nigel Wilson

The diversity and the weaknesses and value of the ancient commentaries can be illustrated through various examples, which show their evolution across antiquity and the middle ages.

Pags. 39 - 70  

Raffaella Cribiore

Lucian's essay Teacher of Rhetoric implies the existence, already in the second century, of the abbreviated curriculum in rhetorical education to which Libanius testifies in the fourth.

Pags. 71 - 86  

Attilio Mastrocinque

Curse tablets placed in lamps thrown into the spring of Anna Perenna in Rome in late antiquity are explained in terms of the Christians' view of pagan water nymphs as still-active and malevolent demons.

Pags. 87 - 99  

P. J. Finglass

The British Library possesses the only surviving copy of Elmsley's edition of the plays of Sophocles, which evidently was withdrawn from circulation after printing; it reveals Elmsley's scholarly development at an earlier age than has been appreciated.

Pags. 101 - 116