Anomalies of distance and time in Xenophon’s description of the retreat can be rectified by taking into account the different figures supplied in Diodorus’ brief information.

Flavian dating formulas and authors of Flavian date are largely absent from the Suda, which suggests a systematic suppression by one of its major sources, perhaps an epitome of Hesychius’ Onomatologos.

The defense of icons shifted gradually from a theory of mimesis to Aristotelian symbolism; this reflected not a revival of learning but arguments developed in the debate itself and hinted at already by Constantine V and at the Council of…

Editorial goals.

Several anecdotes in the Apophthegmata Patrum illustrate how the desert monks coped with the paradoxical situation of having to deal with other monks even while vowing to live alone.

In Diophantus Arith. 5.30, the unique ἑνῆ as a plural “ones” is supported by the mss. and on comparison with “ones” in other mathematical writers can be construed as deriving from an adjective ἑνής.

A new arrangement of the fragments the Praxiergidae decree and new restorations reveal that this genos is now (mid-fifth century) instructed to see to dressing the statue of Athena with peplos and mantle (the Callynteria), just after these had been…