5 articles in this issue
Gjert Vestrheim
Alcman's wish to be a kerylos carried by halcyons derives from a prooemium to a choral song and is a metaphor for the poet's desire for fame, which depends upon the performance of the chorus.
William Desmond
Punishments, with their implications concerning values and national character, are central to Herodotus' view of history, and the account of punishments with which he concludes the Histories evokes and completes this theme.
Michael Carter
Inscriptions of archiereis and Asiarchs in the province of Asia signaling that both sponsored gladiatorial combats add to the reasons for thinking that these two were the same office.
Doron Bar
Recent archaeological work has revealed in late antique Palestine extensive development of previously unused land, and a prosperous and enterprising population of new settlers moving from the older developed zones.
L. S. B. MacCoull
In Dioscorus' encomia, the use of Phaëthon as an expression of praise, rather than as an example of hubris, can be explained by Dioscorus' knowledge of Nonnus, Neoplatonism, and late zodiacal lore.