7 articles in this issue
Andrew T. Alwine
Several passages of the Odyssey hint at, and reject, a version of the Cyclops story, known in later sources, in which the Cyclopes pursue Odysseus at sea.
Anna Strataridaki
Orphans received at syssitia an adult portion of food, but unseasoned: the size derives from the dead father's entitlement, while the lack of seasoning reflects the orphan's minority status.
Marcel Lysgaard Lech
The character of marching in Greek armies, disparate ages of chorus members in Attic drama, and diversity of meters show that the movements of the chorus were not a form of marching or a part of ephebic military training.
David G. Smith
In characterizing Alcibiades, Thucydides uses language and ideas from Pindar's description of the Sicilian tyrants, and implies that the Athenian demos shares this character as well.
Jeffrey M. Hunt
Idyll 10 departs from the conventions of the genre by juxtaposing the world of work with that of bucolic leisure in ways that undermine the idealized fiction of pastoral.
Jessica Wissmann
The ancient commentators focus on Telemachus not in order to illustrate education, but to find justifications for Athena's interventions and conduct.
Regla Fernández-Garrido
Analysis of the trial scenes in Chariton, Longus, and Achilles Tatius shows their knowledge and use of the full repertory of rhetorical theory concerned with designing the strategy of forensic arguments.