7 articles in this issue
H. D. Cameron
Aeschylus can be seen to be following the version of the myth reported by Hellanicus and others, that Eteocles inherited Thebes in justice and Polyneices emigrated, reflecting a system of primogeniture.
William C. Scott
The chorus here expresses not forboding but, with the sequence of the text left as in the mss., confidence about god-given victory and only the normal anxiety of the parents of warriors.
Mark Naoumides
The mss. of the Lexicon Cyrilli yield fragments of Ion, Sophocles, an Alcaeus, Antimachus, Hipponax, Theopompus Comicus, and some anonymi, and help to clarify the relation of this text with other lexica.
Gustav A. Seeck
The logical contradictions in Medea’s monologue can be resolved by recognizing lines 1060-1063, which duplicate the thought of 1238-1241, as interpolated.
George Huxley
(1) The father of the historian Antiochus of Syracuse was a Xenophanes (so Pausanias): this may have been the philosopher, who spent time in the west, and one of Antiochus’ sources. (2) The earliest reference to the decree of Themistocles is by Plutarch, ... see more
James H. Oliver
The texts of the Tean decrees can be clarified in a number of places by alternate restorations or emendations.
Alan Cameron
Meleager’s anthology probably consisted of four books, each on a distinctive theme; Philip’s sequence was alphabetical, but only for the first letter and with some thematic ordering within each alphabetic section.