Greek, roman and byzantine studies  

William A. Johnson

Theogony lines 1-115 exhibit, despite interruptions, the classic features of a priamel, considering in sequence options for the poem's theme before arriving at a focus.

Johan Tralau

The play's first choral ode, ostensibly a victory song for Thebes, employs ambiguous imagery that renders it ominous for both the victors and the vanquished.

Mogens Herman Hansen

For estimating the population of classical Greece, literary sources prove to yield higher numbers than the method based on territorial size, so that the sum is probably more than 7.5 million.

Sergio Giannobile,D. R. Jordan

The errors of form, grammar, and meter may best be explained as visual rather than mental, resulting from a damaged archetype, and the first line can be tentatively reconstructed.

Barbara Saylor Rodgers

Catulus' reported warning about the power of Pompey, anachronistic and showing borrowings from Demosthenes, is Dio's composition and cannot be used to understand the 60's B.C.

Alan Cadwallader

Luke's unpublished journal of his visit to western Anatolia in 1669/70 lists ten churches at Chonai/Colossae, which supports the arguments of Foss for the importance of the city well into the Byzantine period.