Greek, roman and byzantine studies  

Steve Reece

The gloomy portrait of the underworld kat' asphodelon leimona in Od. 11 suggests that this phrase is a resegmenting of an original kata sphodelon, an "ashen" meadow.

Waldemar Heckel

This Nicanor, mentioned by the lexicographers, was mostly likely the subordinate of Antigonus who eventually was appointed governor of the Upper Satrapies.

Elizabeth Asmis

The poem's apparent dichotomy between a traditional and a philosophical view of Zeus is resolved by the Stoic idea that Zeus orders opposing forces and makes possible the ethical bettering of humans.

Craig A. Gibson

Of the statues in the precinct of Tyche in Alexandria, described by [Lib.] Ecphr. 25, the "founder" holding the token of the "Soter" is not Ptolemy I but Alexander in the guise of Zeus.

Christopher P. Jones

In Procopius' encomium of Anastasius, the "holy city" in need of water is not Hierapolis in Syria but Jerusalem, whose system of aqueducts is attested by archaeology and inscriptions.

Pieter Beullens,Allan Gotthelf

Gaza's translation was dedicated to Pope Sixtus IV (printed dedications to Nicholas V are "phantom"), his influential re-ordering of the books of Historia Animalium was unwarranted, and our chapter divisions go back to his 1476 editio princeps.

William M. Calder III,Stephan Heilen

David Pingree (1933-2005) in his last months wrote an account of his scholarly career, the text of which is presented.