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.

For his analysis of Alexander's character at Anab. 7.1 Arrian adopted the thematic structure and language of Plutarch Caes. 58, while close comparison of the two passages also demonstrates the extent of Arrian's rhetorical independence.

The evidence of the orators shows that Athenians did not conceive of the people's court as a subdivision of the sovereign demos, and that in the fourth century they regarded the dikasterion rather than the demos askyrion panton.

The mighty archer Achaian with whom Aristophanes says Thucydides could once have vied can reasonably be emended to Aphaian, Aphaea the goddes of Aegina, a city with which Thucydides was connected.

Several passages of Ps.-Theodosius (tenth century), because of their similarity to Choeroboscus' Psalm-Epismerisms, suggest that they derive from his lost Prolegomena to Orthography.