Orpheus' role as an Argonaut, at times ritual and prophetic, resembles that of an oikistes in colonization expeditions, and his songs can be read in the context of Ptolemaic civic foundations.

The quoted decree granting citizenship to the Plataeans is shown to be a late forgery by the stichometry of the MSS. and by inconsistencies with attested official documents; the summary of the law given by the speaker is a more…

In Malalas' account of games at Antioch, the confusions and doublets reflect his simplification of diverse festivals; the first Olympics there should be dated to A.D. 212 rather than earlier.

In the list of objections at Aristotle Poetics 25, βλαβερόν means not "morally harmful" but "harmful" in the sense of "self-damaging" to the character in question, judged in the context of the plot and expectations of the poetic narrative.

An allegorical reading of the epic, focused on Christian archetypes and saints' lives, shows Digenes' adventures as stages of religious enlightenment and purification.

In the complex ambiguities of voice achieved in their epigrams, Callimachus and other Hellenistic epigrammatists were anticipated by and learned from the varied voices of inscribed epigrams, some of which they could read in book form.

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.