Greek, roman and byzantine studies  

Roger S. Bagnall

The economic realities of monastic life in Egypt are illustrated by various stories in the Apophthegmata Patrum, and the evolving versions of this text can be seen in the geographical context of its several redactions.

Elizabeth D. Carney

Literary and artistic testimonies imply that several Egyptian queens of the 17th and 18th Dynasties exercised military authority or were represented as doing so, a response to the military crises of the period.

Craig A. Gibson

In the papyrus of Didymus’ commentary on Demosthenes, a fragmentary passage concerning “benefactors” can be shown to concern Dem. 10.31 and to relate to a story about Alexander’s dealings with Scythians whose name he changed to Euergetai.

James G. Keenan

The papyri of late ancient Egypt (fourth to seventh centuries A.D.) reveal significant travel within the province by persons of all ranks, suggesting greater freedom of movement than the contemporary law codes imply.

Leslie S. B. MacCoull

When in two verse petitions Dioscorus of Aphrodito applied the word monoeides to the Trinity, he was carefully choosing a term which, rooted in the Platonic tradition, helped him bridge the conflicting christologies of Chalcedonian and Monophysite patrons... see more

Kathleen McNamee

P.Oxy. 1808 (2nd cent. A.D.), a fragment of a commentary on Plato Republic bk. 8, preserves shorthand notations which can now be deciphered and whose unusual presence in a literary text suggests an educated writer who had also learned some shorthand.

Kent J. Rigsby

A letter in the Zenon archive (P.Cair.Zen. 59034 of 257 B.C.) urging the dioiketes Apollonius to help build a shrine of Sarapis concerns Memphis in Egypt, not a city overseas, and can be seen as an effort to give the Greeks of Memphis a cult place indepen... see more

Joshua D. Sosin

A papyrus at U. Texas at Austin (late 3rd cent. B.C.) is published which helps establish that land described in the papyri as aphorologetos is not “unproductive,” an agricultural condition, but “not (at present) taxed” by the state, a fiscal status.