13 articles in this issue
Enrico Emanuele Prodi
When a Hellenistic editor chose an opening poem for an edition of an earlier poet, the motives and the readerly results can be investigated in the cases of Pindar and Sappho.
Antonio Tibiletti
In the roster of the Persian army, “those who live along the coast of Thrace” is redundant and contradictory: consistency is restored by deleting “of Thrace.”
Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui
The recognized incoherent sequence of thought is cured and a coherent dialogue achieved if the lines are rearranged as 1096-5-4.
Marcel Lysgaard Lech
The ????? here connotes not a soldier’s canteen but a vessel for festive heavy drinking, and this serves to makes the chorus of cavalrymen look silly, undermining their self-praise.
Francesca Schironi
The extant testimonia for antisigma and stigmai to indicate redundant and misplaced lines show that these sigla were seldom used, likely felt to be ambiguous and problematic.
Roy D. Kotansky
The obverse, showing the earliest extant image of the Crucifixion, has an inscription suggesting a non-canonical source, while the reverse inscription reveals later reuse of the gem by a non-Christian.
Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy
The report of the trial of Dionysius of Alexandria (Eus. HE 7.11.6 ff, A.D. 258) shows a Roman official not only judging Christian actions but also assessing and disputing their theological positions.
David Woods
The repeated joining of PAX with images of the cross cannot be explained by historical treaties of peace: it reflects instead a Christian topos, the peace brought by the Crucifixion.
Tatiana A. Sénina
The meditation on life’s prospects was written in youth, not old age, and may reflect Leo’s appointment to teach at the Church of the Forty Martyrs in the early 830s.
Byron David MacDougall
John’s application of logical material, drawn especially from commentaries on Porphyry and Aristotle, to explain Aphthonius’ exercises shows his and his readers’ familiarity with the essential principles of logic.
Almut Fries
The long and short marks in two 12/13th century ms., probably teaching texts, reveal a stage of understanding of prosody midway between that of Isaac Tzetzes earlier and Triclinius in the 14th century.
Alexander V. Maiorov
The reliquary cross probably passed from Constantinople to the Galician-Volhynian prince Roman Mstislavich when he married the daughter of Isaak II Angelos ca. 1200; it was seized by the Polish crown in the fourteenth century.
Gábor Bolonyai
A 15th-cent. copy of the Pseudo-Cyril dictionary is shown by a contemporary MS. in Vienna to be by Benedetto Bursa, and this allows a reconstruction of his scholarly career in making Greek known in the West.