9 articles in this issue
Allison E. Das
Demosthenes supports his policies by depicting the Athenians as sick with the disease of political apathy, and in particular uses the Hippocratic concept of prognosis as a forensic argument.
Elizabeth D. Carney
The widows and widowed daughters and sisters of Macedonian kings exhibit different degrees of independent action, particularly with regard to their own remarriages, in the context of the maneuverings of the Successors.
Cristian Tolsa
Valens’ simple methods for the computing the planetary positions along the zodiac probably derive from Balbillus; inadequate, they are meant both to promise beginners an easy start and to claim superiority over the elaborate tools of astronomy.
Philip F. Venticinque
The spells in behalf of commerical artisans seek not only financial success but also qualities like charm, favor, and reputation, showing an awareness of the importance of social capital in supporting business dealings.
John L. Hilton
The story of Cnemon in the Aethiopica echoes the deaths of Constantine’s son Crispus and wife Fausta in 326, and implies a hostile commentary on his legislation about marriage, adultery, and the family.
C. W. Marshall,Melissa Funke
The preserved stage directions and the repetitions in the dialogue make possible a tentative reconstruction of the mime’s narrative, the duping of a soldier and his parasite by two elderly domestic slaves.
Mahmoud Arinat,Mohammad Nassar
The mosaic panels published here, of Byzantine date, show both traditional and novel geometric designs when studied alongside other mosaics from the region of Jordan and beyond.
Alexander Toepel
The parabiblical narrative, written ca. 600, shows the author’s awareness of Hellenised oriental cults still surviving at Harran and Baalbek, of Zoroastrianism fire-worship, and of astrology.
Julie Boeten
The positioning of these particles in book epigrams suggests that the dodecasyllable can exhibit secondary pauses in addition to the primary caesura, and that d? and te have become semantically bleached to the point of being almost interchangeable.