4 articles in this issue
Harold M. Zellner
Aristotle (Rh. 1398b) represents Sappho (fr.201) as arguing that gods choose not to die and thus that death is an evil, which is perhaps best explained if her poem responded to the militaristic valuation of death expressed in poets like Tyrtaeus.
Edwin Carawan
At Athens legislation that made private agreements enforceable rested not on the binding effect of promises per se but on a principle of closure, modeled on the Reconciliation of 403.
David D. Phillips
The prosecution in Hyp. 1 (330s B.C.), in using eisangelia in a case of seduction, was seeking to elevate the seriousness of the crime and, under Lycurgus' influence, to broaden the application of the statue against subversion of the democracy.
Paul Botley
The sequence of Humanist efforts in the fifteenth century to put in order the Athenian calendar helps to clarify the interrelation of a number of early printed editions and the Attic dates they employed.