5 articles in this issue
Phillip S. Peek
A narratological approach to the Phaeacian episode shows that the Phaeacians are ambivalent in terms of the ethics of the Odyssey, needing to be persuaded to give Odysseus the gifts that will help him reestablish his honored status in Ithaca.
William J. Slater
Silent action on stage, even if not alluded to by the text, sometimes must be postulated to make sense of a scene; late plays of Euripides, especially Electra, offer examples.
Edward Anson
Reexamination of the literary evidence in conjunction with the documentary (Greek and cuneiform) supports the “lower chronology” that places these decisive events in 320 rather than 321.
Howard Jacobson
That the Exagoge was a single play, not a tetralogy as recently argued, is supported by the known usages of Hellenistic drama, suggesting that it had a five-act structure.
David Hernandez de la Fuente
Two of the funerary orations of Hyrtakenos (XIVth century) reveal his knowledge of Nonnus' Dionysiaca; these join other testimonies to the popularity of Nonnus in the late Byzantine period and the Renaissance.