Greek, roman and byzantine studies  

- - The Editors

Editorial goals.

J. L. Benson

Comparative study of a strut tripod excavated in a Cypriot grave places it around 1050 B.C., preceding the emergence of rod tripods and marking a transition from Bronze Age to Iron Age types.

G. L. Huxley

1) Eumaeus’ Syrie is the land of the Leukosyroi as known to an Ionian poet the late eighth century; 2) the Telegony of Eugamon of Cyrene (6th cent.) implies 23.295 as the end of the Odyssey; 3) an epic verse quoted at Pl. Phdr. 252B can be understood as c... see more

William M. Calder III

The “deed” that Creon accuses Haemon of (Ant. 1228) must be the murder of Antigone, and this is not subsequently contradicted, while Sophocles leaves only the implication of suicide.

J. Allen Cabaniss

A number of passages in the Satyricon reveal knowledge of Christianity, which Petronius can have acquired during his official duties in the eastern provinces.

Morton Smith

Two pages of a 15th-cent. manuscript in the Mar Saba monastery are published, giving new scholia on the early lines of Sophocles’ Ajax.

Marvin C. Ross

Three cameos of the tenth to twelfth centuries are published, one still in its original silver mounting, the other two original in form, crucifixes with reliefs.

James A. Coulter

Nietzsche’s early scholarly work on Greek thought animated him throughout his life, but as early at 1868 he gives hints of his coming break with traditional philological methods.