Six curse tablets recently excavated at Pydna in Macedonia are published; dating from the fourth century B.C., they are especially rich in illustrating the nomenclature of the region.

A comparative study of the evidence for Greek progymnasmata, the tracts of preliminary exercises to rhetoric, suggests that Theon wrote not in the first century but the fifth, while the tract attributed to Hermogenes may have been written by Minucianus.

The sharply different attitudes to icons versus relics in the age of Iconoclasm had its foundations in a number of scenes in the Bible, which offered influential precedents for the distinctive evaluation of the two.

The Cretan scholar Marcus Musurus composed a poem, here published, rendering the Creed in verse; written probably between 1509 and1516, the text shows his virtuosity as a poet and the range of his readings.

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.

The claim of a hypothesis to Euripides’ Rhesus that Dicaearchus knew of two prologues to the play can help clarify the context, scope, and authenticity of his introductions to classical tragedies.