Greek, roman and byzantine studies  

David Kawalko Roselli

Although the Theoric Fund for theater attendance became a part of the Athenian budget only in the fourth century, ad hoc payments for this purpose can be documented already in the fifth.

Brad L. Cook

Aeschines in his prosecution speech and Demosthenes in defense employ value terms differently, notably andragathia and eunoia, in defining civic excellence, and inscriptions help gauge the contemporary perception of the terms.

Lara O'Sullivan

The claim, in a didascalic list, that the tyrant Lachares blocked performance of Menander's Imbrians (302/1) derives from ancient scholars' quest for political motives to explain statements in comedy, and probably also confuses Lachares with the tyrant St... see more

Vasiliki Kostopoulou

The ecphrasis on the Cyclops-Galatea painting is rich in intertextual connections and is made more complex by its alternations between credible visual description and story-telling that could have no visual basis in a painting.

Pantelis Nigdelis,Asterios Lioutas

An inscribed bust of the third century A.D. is published which reveals a hitherto-unattested title for a member of the provincial elite of Macedonia.

Edward Watts

The conflicting descriptions of the sixth-century doctor offered by pagans, Christians, and eventually Moslems show how he came to be taken as a representative, for good or ill depending on their conflicting viewpoints, of the Alexandrian intellectual com... see more

Danuta M. Górecki

Constantine’s law of A.D. 922, by its adoreia provision, allowed an abandoned military allotment to be assigned to a civilian on condition of maintaining a soldier on its proceeds, but it provided no mechanism for carrying this out.