7 articles in this issue
Mogens Herman Hansen
Among the several meanings of eleutheria used by Greeks in the classical period, democratic freedom is rejected by both Plato and Aristotle, who do not articulate a theory of political freedom but rather confine eleutheria to a social context.
Gunther Martin
Arguments based on inconsistency with their surrounding scenes and several features of their language support deleting Ion lines 1398-1400, 647, and probably 612-620.
Daniel W. Berman
Korinna's expoitation of Boeotian topography and dialect in order to express wider epic themes resembles Hellenistic poetic developments, and this agrees with other evidence that would place her in the later fourth century B.C.
Maria Ypsilanti
A series of epigrams on the topos of the abandonment of Delos shows the influence of Callimachus' Hymn to Delos, even while the writers dispute his praise of the island in light of its decline after 166 B.C.
Søren Lund Sørensen
3 Macc. 1.4 (the loosening of Arsinoe's locks) makes an allusion to the Coma Berenices of Callimachus (the cutting off of the lock of Berenice), with the implication that the god of the Jews gave victory to the Ptolemies in the battle of Raphia.
Maren R. Niehoff
Philo's description of the sober Jewish symposium in De vita contempletiva resembles the attitude of the contemporary elite in Rome and caps a growing disparagement of the traditional Greek symposium that can be traced through his earlier writings.
Juan Pablo Sánchez Hernández
Procles, cited by Pausanias (in the imperfect tense) about a display in Rome and for an opinion about Pyrrhus of Epirus, probably was not a historian of Hellenistic date, but a contemporary sophist whom Pausanias encountered in person in Rome.