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Volume 51 Number 2 Year 2011

8 articles in this issue 

Erik van Dongen

The closest and most numerous parallels to Hesiod’s account of the succession of ruler gods are found in the Hurro-Hittite Song of Going Forth, while the differences show that the Greek version was shaped to illustrate the superiority of Zeus over his pre... see more

Pags. 180 - 201  

Claire Catenaccio

Dreams invoked in the Oresteia move progressively from metaphor to material reality, and are instrumental in serving to reveal the meaning of the story of the house of Atreus.

Pags. 202 - 231  

P. J. Finglass

Markland’s marginalia in his copy of Johnson’s edition of Sophocles anticipate a number of emendations by others and show his importance as a contributor to establishing the text.

Pags. 232 - 238  

Mogens Herman Hansen

Attention to the Greeks’ use of age groups in drafting armies shows that the battle-figures in ancient authors require use of a multiple of 12 in order to deduce total citizen numbers, implying larger population figures than is usually thought.

Pags. 239 - 253  

Edwin M. Carawan

The evidence of the orators shows that the paragraphê on such issues as proper jurisdiction did not precede a separate hearing on the substance of the case but was one element of the argumentation in a single proceeding.

Pags. 254 - 295  

G. Reydams-Schils

The Stoics’ rejection of deference to the founding thinkers’ authority contrasts with the other philosophical schools and was essential to the Stoic goal of individual agency, responsibility, and selfhood in living a good life.

Pags. 296 - 322  

John Wortley

While “repose” in the Apophthegmata can refer to comfort or hospitality or eternal peace, mostly it is found to mean spiritual tranquility, and some passages illustrate that this was the goal of those who took refuge in the desert.

Pags. 323 - 339  

Nizar Turshan,Mohammad Nassar

A mosaic in a late antique church in Jordan offers images from the Old Testament, including a Nilotic scene and a portrait of Daniel and his three brothers.

Pags. 340 - 349