Greek, roman and byzantine studies  

Margalit Finkelberg

Homer's several statements about the polar constellations prompted ancient critics both to emend the received text, in order to attribute to Homer advanced astronomical knowledge, and to defend it, by means of reinterpretation.

Aaron P. Johnson

In his biographies of the Old Testament holy men, Eusebius applies the topos of the rivalry between verbal and visual portraits, but goes beyond his classical precedents by treating lives as moral icons.

Philip Rance

The tactic of forming a shield-wall, although called by the Germanic name fulcum first in Maurice’s Strategicon in the sixth century, has a long history of use by the Roman legions, and is not an instance of Germanic influence on Roman tactics.