7 articles in this issue
Giampiero Scafoglio
Two invocations attributed to the Ilias Parva, usually seen as alternative possibilities for its proem, are shown by comparison with the opening of the Aeneid to belong both in the proem.
Lawrence Richardson, Jr
Reassessment of the plot line, dramaturgy, and scene divisions suggests a number of ways in which the play is indebted to or departs from Menander's play on which it was based.
David Frankfurter
A second-century complaint against someone who threw a fetus to immobilize his enemies illustrates a thought-world in which the fetus has magical binding power.
Eugenio Amato
An unpublished fragment of a rhetorical exercise, Demosthenes on the death of Philip, is edited and analyzed; its style supports attribution to the sophist Severus of Alexandria.
Sergio Giannobile,D. R. Jordan
An improved text of a Christian phylactery provides an addition to the small catalogue of protective/white magic texts inscribed on lead rather than on precious metal.
Christos Simelidis
The phrase "honored like God" in a poem of Prodromos (XII cent.) is classical and traditional, but also specifically indebted to a passage of Gregory Naz. which Prodromos apparently misread.
Thomas M. Conley
Two tracts on oratory, presented in scattered fashion by Walz, appear to date from the end of the thirteenth century, and possibly were composed by Theodora Rhaoulaina, a pupil of Gregory of Cyprus.