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Volume 50 Number 4 Year 2010

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.

Pags. 461 - 489  

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.

Pags. 490 - 498  

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.

Pags. 499 - 536  

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.

Pags. 536 - 564  

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.

Pags. 565 - 585  

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.

Pags. 586 - 615  

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.

Pags. 616 - 624  

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.

Pags. 625 - 638  

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.

Pags. 639 - 650