Greek, roman and byzantine studies  

George L. Huxley

(1) The Plataean proxenos of the Spartans was the son of the Aeimnestus who killed Mardonius, to whom several other references can be recognized. (2) The Phrygian word for ‘bread’ is found in a fragment of Hipponax implying that the word was also used on ... see more

Donald Norman Levin

The reading “Lyrceian Argos” at Arg. 1.125 should be corrected to ‘Lynceian’, the epithet deriving from the Argive mythic hero Lynceus.

Herbert C. Youtie

The process of editing a papyrus text involves transcription, reconstruction, translation, introduction, and commentary, aided by intuition and monitored by subsequent review.

George D. Kilpatrick

The papyri derive from an ancient library that included classical literature, Christian Greek texts, and Coptic, dating soon after A.D. 200; the biblical fragments support the early fixing of the NT text.

Arthur Darby Nock

For a Jew to be a citizen of a Greek city like Antioch, there is no need to posit a grant of isopoliteia; Antioch does not figure prominently in the culture of the Second Sophistic; the Antiochene Olympia, celebrated until 520, were religiously neutral an... see more