The chorus of women in Lysistrata exploit both myth and rhetoric in their cause when they invoke Timon, whom other sources show to be not a misanthrope but an outsider and rule-breaker.

Comparison of how Paul and Justin Martyr invoke miracle-working in their appeals to authority suggests their divergent goals, reflecting a shift in emphasis from support of personal authority to support of the larger Christian apologetic mission.

Philostratus’ account of Apollonius’ journey to India can be shown, especially from its geographical details, to contain a mixture of historical fact and literary fiction, with the fictional elements increasing when Apollonius passes beyond Roman territory.

At the Sixth Ecumenical Council (A.D. 680), conflicting assessments of texts were argued, and these debates, documented in the acts of the council, illuminate theories of authenticity and authorship in late antique Christianity.

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.]

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.