Defixiones published between the listing in 1985 (GRBS 26) and 2000 are tabulated and described. [The on-line article is a corrected version of the printed text.]

In the leases, πὰρ + name in the genitive indicates the original property owner, and in one text πὰρ Μενίας, rather than Παρμενίας, adds to the number of rich women attested in Hellenistic Boeotia.

Ptolemy, as part of his account of the universe, applied the established principles of astrology in arriving at a systematic characterization of the different regions and peoples of the earth.

The Athenians praised the Areopagus and the other homicide courts as the city's finest tribunals, seeing in their unusual procedures, particularly the relevancy rule, a greater emphasis on legal argument and less vulnerability to influence by the emotional appeals or…

Several expressions of opinion in the Ath. Pol. are consistent with the value that Aristotle places on political moderation, especially in his accounts of Solon and Peisistratus, and thus seem to be his own judgments rather than echoes of his sources.

Evidence for the changing Roman administrative divisions of Lycaonia and Isauria allows us to clarify the historical relationships of the “eleventh strategia,” the “tetrarchy of Lycaonia,” the strategia Antiochiana, and the Lycaonian koinon.

Violent abduction of a woman against her will is treated with some sympathy in the twelfth-century novel, especially in Theodore Prodromos, in sharp contrast to the romanticism of the ancient novel; this departure is illuminated by the contemporary conflict between…

In Odysseus’ account of the Underworld told to the Phaeacians, his selection of heroines (Od. 11.225-332) focuses on legends of Boeotia, southern Thessaly, and Athens; literary and archaeological evidence for connections between the Peisistratids, Boeotia, and Thessaly suggest a time…

The mock battles by which Heraclius trained the army before the Persian wars of the 620’s A.D., called an innovation by George of Pisidia, can be shown to have a long history of precedents both in practice and in military…

Several piyyutim, the Hebrew liturgical poems of late ancient date, make reference to the Persian and then Arab conquests of the Holy Land, and can shed light on Jewish responses to the Byzantine losses, losses which some Christian authors sought…