Greek, roman and byzantine studies  

Henry R. Immerwahr

A toy rattle, ca. 500 B.C., has inscriptions that include the owner’s name, Myrrhine, and praise of a boy “from the mounds,” i.e. private funeral games.

Mabel L. Lang

Examination of the chronology of the Helot revolt suggests that the Thasians’ revolt was ended before the Spartans asked for Athenian help at Ithome; the Athenians and Thucydides misconstrued Sparta’s motives.

A. A. Long

The threma of the Hydra at Sophocles Trach. 574 does not mean poison, but poison is rather the “offspring” of the Hydra, and this supports restoring the word at line 837.

G. W. Bowersock

The philosopher-governor of Cappadocia honored by I.Corinth 124 is Arrian, and the Gellius Menander who honored him is the dedicatee of Epictetus' Dicourses.

Patrick Henry III

The Justinianic ‘mirror for princes’, the source of fragments attributed to Philo Judaeus and of passages in Barlaam, stresses the ruler’s need to imitate God and display philanthropia.

Susan B. Downey

The image of David killing the lion is closest to a small number of unusual portraits of Heracles’ labor, in which he is kneeling on the lion’s back and raising his club.

Donald M. Nicol

Ignorance of others and pride in themselves dominated Byzantine thought about the west, but some held more positive views, whether pragmatic in the face of events or romantic upon discovery of western writings.