11 articles in this issue
Andrew Porter
Homeric allusions to Laomedon, the walls of Troy, and the first Trojan War reflect a backstory of previous fighting among the Olympians, which helps to explain the Iliadic portrait of Zeus’s fear of insubordination among the other gods.
Richard T. Neer,Leslie Kurke
This dithyramb, in evoking the Altar of the Twelve Gods and adjacent shrines, was sung in and celebrates the old agora east of the Acropolis, associated with the Peisistratids, rather than the new agora of the developing democracy.
Andreas P. Antonopoulos
The satyrs in this controversial passage are best understood as being threatened with a beating, with ??a???te? … ??f?[s]ete understood as “you will make a noise, crying…”
Marco Gemin
The same motivations (eros, logos, bia, theos) are attributed by Gorgias to Helen and by Euripides to Medea, which suggests the writers’ common intellectual ground, though the motivations are alternative in Gorgias, simultaneous in Euripides.
Helma Dik
Several degree adverbs can express an assessment of probability and so function as attitudinal disjuncts, as is illustrated (especially in Thucydides) by examples using µ???sta, ???sta, µ?????, and others.
Theodora Suk Fong Jim
The several senses of ?p?? in dedicatory texts, often doubtful or misunderstood, can be clarified by classifying the objects of the preposition into intended beneficiary, sought benefit, and surrogate.
Bradley J. Bitner
In appealing a decision of a previous provincial governor, the city of Chios was able to exploit the existing documentary record and Roman respect for early precedents and persuade the new governor to overturn his predecessor’s finding.
Philip A. Stadter
Comparison of two of Plutarch’s Apothegmata works with some of the extant Lives shows that he first compiled commonplace books on several themes, which he then reorganized and exploited in writing the Lives.
Cristian Tolsa
The epigram in praise of mathematics, attributed to Claudius Ptolemy in the Anth.Gr., can be shown by the manuscripts and by its variant readings to have originated as a marginalium added to his Syntaxis and later taken to be his own composition.
Luis Alejandro Salas
Galen’s commitment to encephalocentrism and to a coherent theory of structural requirements led him to assert, even in a public experiment, the existence of a bone in the elephant heart where none exists.
Gunther Martin,Jana Grusková
Two pages of a Vienna palimpsest, now deciphered, are found to contain a historical narrative, probably authored by Dexippus of Athens, which reveals new details of the Gothic invasion of 250/1.