Greek, roman and byzantine studies  

Theodora Suk Fong Jim

In ancient mentions of gifts to the gods, a number of terms suggest motives, and a listing of these can be exploited to assess religious intentions and mentalities.

Christopher C. Eckerman

The extant odes provide no evidence for the common view that some must have first been performed at Panhellenic sanctuaries immediately after the victory.

Maren R. Niehoff

Philo in his biographies of biblical figures anticipates the moral and anecdotal cast of Plutarch’s Lives, for both were influenced by the Stoicism that they encountered in Rome.

J. Carlos Iglesias-Zoido

The phenomenon of selective reading and copying of Thucydides’ History, attested to by authors and papyri, reflects the teaching and the practice of rhetoric in the Imperial age.

Ergün Lafli,Maurizio Buora,Attilio Mastrocinque

The lamp, in the shape of a mummified Osiris, has only a few parallels; it contains inscriptions with magical formulas that can be paralleled in other magical texts.

Boris Maslov

Gregory’s idea of theosis, which came to be influential in Eastern Christianity, draws not on a Platonic notion of imitation of God but more on the Stoics’ ‘familiarity’ with the divine.

Geert Roskam

Damascius’ comments on the theory of recollection may well come from a lost work of Plutarch, to judge from the structure and sequence of the arguments.

René Nünlist

Eustathius repeatedly assesses passages of Homer with a view toward showing their utility to contemporaries in the living practice of oratory.