Greek, roman and byzantine studies  

Marco Ercoles

In Stesichorus’ account of the fight between Heracles and Geryon, the winged figures said to be crouching nearby should be understood as the Keres waiting to carry off the dead Geryon.

Dimitri Nakassis

Shared elements, especially topographical and judicial, in the ritual and myth of the Dipolieia and the narrative of the murder of the Cylonian conspirators imply that the two accounts came to be assimilated in Athenian consciousness.

Nikoletta Kanavou

Civic myths and their role in the expression of political identity can be seen to be parodied in Acharnians (the cause of the Peloponnesian War, the conquest of Eleusis) and Birds (foundation legends, the Athenian kings).

Cameron Hawkins

Scattered testimonia and the continuing ideology of  the military value of the Spartan paideia in the fourth century support the view that perioikoi mostly served in contingents of their own rather than the morai, and the Spartan state relied chiefly on t... see more

Frédérique Woerther

Several testimonia on Hermagoras (II B.C.) imply that he defined the scope of rhetoric quite broadly, rather than narrowly as was normal in later rhetoricians: for such a definition, more theoretical than practical, the precedent was Aristotle in the Rhet... see more

Aaron Pelttari

The treatment of Greek words in manuscripts of Augustine and of Ausonius suggests that late Latin writers employed transliteration, rather than writing Greek letters, more often than has been thought, both for familiar loan-words in Latin and for words pe... see more

Jakob Leth Fink

Pletho’s arguments against the doctrine of the mean in Eth.Nic. misunderstand Aristotle’s position, but they constitute an important innovation in seeking to discredit the tradition that interpreted Aristotelian ethics in terms of Christian theology.