6 articles in this issue
Douglas Young
(1) The transcription of Pindar from uncials to cursive cannot be shown to have taken place more than once; (2) word-division at verse end is supported by the mss. as well as meter and should not be emended away; (3) errors of more than one syllable are r... see more
DeCoursey Fales, Jr
A fragment of a cup in the Louvre, with a painted gorgoneion, can by stylistic comparison be attributed to Kleitias.
James H. Oliver
In the Cyrene foundation inscription the number of colonists should be restored as 100, and this suggests how to emend Hdt. 4.153, a levy of one son per household.
William M. Calder III
The drama centered on the breaking down of Agamemnon’s resistance to the sacrifice of Polyxena; the play probably is earlier than Antigone, perhaps ca. 450 B.C.
Robert K. Sherk
Inscriptions from Ephesus, when combined with Augustus’ letter to Cnidus (showing Asinius in Rome in 6 B.C.), establish that Asinius was governor in 5/4 B.C.
Ian Thomson
Several of the major figures in the Renaissance reckoned Chrysoloras’ teaching in Florence (1397-1400) as the decisive step in the rebirth of learning; but he was there probably also as a diplomat, to encourage western support for the defense of the east.