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.

A narratological approach to the Phaeacian episode shows that the Phaeacians are ambivalent in terms of the ethics of the Odyssey, needing to be persuaded to give Odysseus the gifts that will help him reestablish his honored status in Ithaca.

Silent action on stage, even if not alluded to by the text, sometimes must be postulated to make sense of a scene; late plays of Euripides, especially Electra, offer examples.

Reexamination of the literary evidence in conjunction with the documentary (Greek and cuneiform) supports the  “lower chronology” that places these decisive events in 320 rather than 321.

That the Exagoge was a single play, not a tetralogy as recently argued, is supported by the known usages of Hellenistic drama, suggesting that it had a five-act structure.

Two of the funerary orations of Hyrtakenos (XIVth century) reveal his knowledge of Nonnus' Dionysiaca; these join other testimonies to the popularity of Nonnus in the late Byzantine period and the Renaissance.