Greek, roman and byzantine studies  

Ruobing Xian

Between ?p?d?a (?d??) and Vedic upadra??ár- (‘onlooker’) are etymological correspondences and semantic similarity: both apply to a superior who justly rebukes one who violates social or religious decorum.

Mogens Herman Hansen

Three honorific decrees that were referred to the nomothetai for further action, despite the distinction between law and decree, can be seen as borderline cases, in which an action for an individual entailed altering a law.

Nereida Villagra

Punctuating the passage differently solves a grammatical puzzle and connects the harm “to the dearest” to relatives of the Thessalian women, as is consistent with other testimonies on what befalls the witches of Thessaly.

Pantelis Nigdelis,Pavlos Anagnostoudis

Statue bases of prominent Romans are published which illuminate the institutional and political life of Amphipolis in the late Republican period.

Jacqueline Michelle Arthur-Montagne

Longinus’ medical diagnosis of literature, built on the Plato’s Hippocratic approach (Phaedrus), distinguishes Longinus’ scientific assessment from the contemporary trope of decline.

Victor Gysembergh

Boll’s unpublished marginalia in his copy of Maass’ Commen­tariorum in Aratum reflect his knowledge of Greek and Babylonian astonomy and clarify a number textual difficulties.

Ville Vuolanto

Papyri from Oxyrhynchus document the important roles of grandmothers in the family, and especially of maternal grandmothers in the early years of a grandchild’s life.

Christopher A. Faraone

A number of gems, some previously unpublished and some misunderstood, seem to imply owners of a lower social order than is typical of magical gems.

Jeremy J. Swist

In his rhetorical exercises that portray boorish critics denouncing educated speakers as sophists and magicians, Libanius hints at the contemporary scene of Christian attacks on Hellenic paideia.

Todd Krulak

Damascius as head of the Academy reduced but did not reject Proclus’ emphasis on ritual in approaching the divine, stressing instead its subordinate but important role.

Stephanie Roussou

Theognostus’ On Orthography, based on Herodian’s On Prosody, shows the steps that Theognostus took in order to convert a tract on accent into one on spelling, in an age of changed pronunciation.

Przemyslaw Marciniak

The text, here translated and commented on, is a school exercise but comic in tone, and so appropriate both for pupils and as court entertainment, as it echoes contemporary criticism of monks.

Annalisa Paradiso

A scholion about Croesus in the Porphyrogenitan Excerpta, its text quite close to Thomas Magister’s note on Eur. Or. 165, may derive from this note, but it is possible that both derive from an abridgement of Nicolaus of Damascus.