9 articles in this issue
Marcel Widzisz
In Aeschylus' trilogy the several recognizable allusions to the Eleusinian Mysteries, invoking the initiate's sudden passage from dark to light, serve to underscore ironically the larger theme of the corruption of ritual.
Antonis K. Petrides
The mighty archer Achaian with whom Aristophanes says Thucydides could once have vied can reasonably be emended to Aphaian, Aphaea the goddes of Aegina, a city with which Thucydides was connected.
Mogens Herman Hansen
The evidence of the orators shows that Athenians did not conceive of the people's court as a subdivision of the sovereign demos, and that in the fourth century they regarded the dikasterion rather than the demos askyrion panton.
Johanna Hanink
The letters spuriously attributed to Euripides engage with and resist the portrait offered by other biographical traditions, sometimes weaving a rival and corrective narrative out of the anecdotes that circulated about him.
Bradley Buszard
For his analysis of Alexander's character at Anab. 7.1 Arrian adopted the thematic structure and language of Plutarch Caes. 58, while close comparison of the two passages also demonstrates the extent of Arrian's rhetorical independence.
Paul C. Dilley
The NT apocrypha and other late popular literature, often claiming to purvey rediscovered old documents describing anti-Jewish actions, aimed to influence public opinion and to oppose the state's policies that protected synagogues.
Nizar Turshan
A newly-discovered mosaic floor in a late antique church in Jordan is sufficiently preserved to be identified as an image of the three Magi.
L. S. B. MacCoull
The Aphrodito land survey (A.D. 524) reflects meticulous and professional study of the territory and probably was prompted by the need for a clear estimate of fiscal resources in anticipation of war with Persia.
Stefano Valente
Several passages of Ps.-Theodosius (tenth century), because of their similarity to Choeroboscus' Psalm-Epismerisms, suggest that they derive from his lost Prolegomena to Orthography.