Sir William Osler bequeathed his library to McGill University in 1919 and the 8000 volumes arrived in Montreal a decade later. Then as now the collection consisted of both primary works (rare books) and secondary commentaries and current works on…

The Hellenistic drama Exagoge by Ezekiel, preserved only in fragments, can be seen to conform to classical rules of unity of plot and time if we posit that the quotations derive not from a single play but from a tetralogy, whose contours…

Plutarch’s biography of Julius Caesar, compared with other accounts, deliberately plays down sexuality as a motive in Caesar's life, in order to stress his single-minded political ambition.

The literary and epigraphical sources show that the great temples at Cyzicus, Smyrna, and Ephesus, which recently have been attributed to Zeus or Zeus as well as Hadrian, belonged to Hadrian alone, and so do not testify to a modest…

Sozomen in his Ecclesiastical History departs from the tradition of Eusebius, which focused on the triumph of Christianity in the Empire, in employing ethnography as a proper element of Christian historiography, emphasizing the mission of conversion of foreign peoples.

Holobolus’ preface to his Boethius translation (here translated into English) illuminates the differing efforts of Holobolus and Planudes in translating Latin literary materials into Greek, revealing the wider cultural agenda of Planudes.

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