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Volume 59 Number 3 Year 2019

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.

Pags. pp. 340 - 367  

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.

Pags. pp. 368 - 396  

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.

Pags. pp. 397 - 414  

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.

Pags. pp. 415 - 436  

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.

Pags. pp. 437 - 459  

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.

Pags. pp. 460 - 492  

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.

Pags. pp. 493 - 506  

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.

Pags. pp. 507 - 528  

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. 

Pags. pp. 529 - 550