Greek, roman and byzantine studies  

Tomislav Bilic

Greek efforts to localize heliotropic points led to varied interpretations of the Odyssey’s ‘Syrie’, ‘Ortygia’, and the turnings of the sun (15.404), especially Pytheas’ ‘Thoule’.

Ben Raynor

Reception of theoroi and decrees of asylia, being harmless gestures, are not evidence of the cities’ independence of the king; these gestures proliferate with the growing involvement of the cities with the rest of the Greek world.

Vladimir F. Stolba

Two curse-tablets, published here, offer new onomastic data on the region, and a reference to civic guardians of orphans, such as are attested in other cities.

Alan J. Ross

Libanius’ panegyric for Constantius and Constans offers a sustained meditation on the proper role of historiography and its conventions in the practice of encomium.

Annalisa Paradiso

The Suda, in placing Leonidas at Sphacteria, depends on schol. Ar. Eq. 55a and reflects a confusion between Pylos and Pylae.

Annalisa Paradiso

Conflicting accounts in the Suda concerning the wife of Acastus derive only in part from Nicolaus, while the rest probably can be attributed Aelian.

Alexander V. Maiorov

The movements of the emperor during the Fourth Crusade, traceable through Byzantine and western sources, probably included a mission to seek aid from the Galician ruler.

Marios Philippides

Chalcocondyles’ account of John’s conflict with the Genoese ca. 1434 is supplemented by a contemporary panegyric that shows the events to be part of a larger conflict between Genoa and Venice.