6 articles in this issue
John M. Marston
The words and actions in the opening scene of Prometheus Bound, especially the piercing of Prometheus, have the effect of evoking ancient "binding curses," which would have been familiar to the Athenian audience.
Sviatoslav Dmitriev
The crisis of succession near the end of Lysimachus' reign was prompted by the altered fortunes of his wife Arsinoe once her brother became king of Egypt as Ptolemy II in 285 B.C.
P. Thonemann
The evolution of the Leucophryena is clarified if the Magnesians' claim was not to have "at first" sought stephanitic games for the Greeks of Asia, but to have been the "first" Greeks of Asia to seek stephanitic games.
Maren R. Niehoff
Plato's Timaeus, in the beginning widely invoked, became with Philo and Plutarch a privileged source of authority for the Middle Platonists, and with Celsus and Porphyry a marker of pagan identity.
Philip Rance
The Etym.Mag. article "stratos" is this compiler's pastiche of materials that can be traced partly to the extant Tacticon of Urbicius, partly to a lexicographic tradition that ran from Xenophon to Pollux.
David M. Gwynn
The defenders of icons in the eighth and ninth centuries, especially Photius, significantly reinterpreted the fourth-century Arian controversy and the views of Eusebius in order to link the Iconoclasts to the Arians and themselves to Church fathers like A... see more