5 articles in this issue
Margalit Finkelberg
Homer's several statements about the polar constellations prompted ancient critics both to emend the received text, in order to attribute to Homer advanced astronomical knowledge, and to defend it, by means of reinterpretation.
Janette Auer
Electra in Aeschylus' Choephori is not, as usually thought, weak, indecisive, and dependent on the Chorus, but from the first consistent in promoting revenge, manipulating the Chorus, and guiding Orestes.
William J. Slater,Daniela Summa
The Magnesians' narrative of their effort to increase the status of the festival for Artemis (I.Magnesia 16) shows that they sought stephanitic games from the start, and the 50-stater crown mentioned was not for a victor but for Artemis.
L. S. B. MacCoull
Dating probably from the 550's, the tract of military and political advice shows traces of Christian Platonism and possibly of an Alexandrian background.
John Wortley
Various passages of the Apophthegmata Patrum, in describing the melete of the Desert Fathers, make clear that this was not modern (silent) "meditation" but viva voce.