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Volume 55 Number 3 Year 2015

11 articles in this issue 

Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides

Asclepiades Anth.Gr. 5.64, portraying Danae as love-sick rather than the mercenary of Christian tradition, inspired Thomas Carew’s finding in her a perfect example of all-devouring passion.

Pags. pp. 558 - 582  

Fernando Notario

The Cynics’ attitudes towards food, cookery, and eating were important in signaling their socio-cultural identity, a specific ‘Cynic menu’ serving to distinguish them from high society and its culinary norms.

Pags. pp. 583 - 607  

Gertjan Verhasselt

The collection of Hypotheses is identical with the ‘narrative hypotheses’ found in papyri and medieval prefaces; late Hellenistic, it was not written by the Peripatetic, but possibly by the grammarian Dicaearchus of Sparta.

Pags. pp. 608 - 636  

W. Graham Claytor,Roger S. Bagnall

A papyrus from Theadelphia, now our earliest census declaration from Egypt, supports the view that the 7-year census cycle was first instituted in 11/0, two decades after the establishment of Roman rule.

Pags. pp. 637 - 653  

Rodney Ast,Julia Lougovaya

A new literary papyrus, one of the few from the Eastern Desert ports, offers some lyric verses describing music and dance in a rite for Cybele.

Pags. pp. 654 - 678  

Katarzyna Jazdzewska

In addition to its recognized interaction with Plato and Hellenistic philosophy, Dio’s Charidemus, in its format, character, and themes, appears to draw in particular on Aristotle’s lost Eudemus.

Pags. pp. 679 - 687  

Cristian Tolsa

Ptolemy’s self-representation as philosopher is conventional in the Almagest but not so in Harmonics, which emulates Plato’s Timaeus and makes philosophy the result  of understanding harmonics rather than the premise.

Pags. pp. 688 - 705  

Yanne Broux

The ca. 375,000 Greek, Egyptian, and Latin names attested in Egypt can be usefully studied with network visualization and analysis to provide a fresh perspective on naming practices.

Pags. pp. 706 - 720  

Klaas Bentein

To the study of semantic and syntactic properties of Greek particles should be added consideration of the social dimension, as a number of instances show that they can serve to the mark the social stratum of the writer and the addressee.

Pags. pp. 721 - 753  

Daria D. Resh

Metaphrasis became a major hagiographical practice from the tenth century on, with Choiroboskos (ninth cent.) a key figure in its development; but it gained only limited recognition in Byzantine rhetorical theory.

Pags. pp. 754 - 787  

Lorenzo Miletti

Benevento’s taking the Calydonian Boar as its emblem in the fifteenth century is crucial evidence for the Renaissance response to the text of Procopius, sole testimony to Diomedes’ gift of the boar's tusks to the city.

Pags. pp. 788 - 811