<jats:p>At <jats:italic>Alexipharmaca</jats:italic> 472–5, Nicander compares the sea hare to the cuttlefish and describes the latter's defensive mechanism of ink emission before turning to a symptom of sea hare poisoning, a change of skin colour:<jats:verse-group> <jats...

<jats:p>The phrase ἐγχέλυές τε καὶ ἰχθύες (‘eels and fish’) appears twice in <jats:italic>Iliad</jats:italic> Book 21, in descriptions of actions involving the river Xanthus:<jats:verse-group> <jats:verse-line>τὸν μὲν ἄρ’ ἐγχέλυές τε καὶ ἰχθύες ἀμφεπένοντο (203)</jats:v...

<jats:p>This article examines allusions to Greek poetry in two Greek verse inscriptions carved on public monuments for Lycian dynasts of the late fifth and early fourth centuries <jats:sc>b.c.</jats:sc> (<jats:italic>CEG</jats:italic> 177, 888). Scholarship on these epi...

<jats:p>By the mid fourth century <jats:sc>c.e.</jats:sc>, violently divergent Christian communities had developed across the Roman empire: Nicene or Homoousian (God and Jesus ‘are of the same substance’), Homoiousian (‘are of similar substance’), Homoian (Jesus is ‘lik...

<jats:p>The sting to Aristophanes’ ‘little tale’ in <jats:italic>Wasps</jats:italic> (λογίδιον, <jats:italic>Vesp.</jats:italic> 64) materializes from the comedy's interplay with the <jats:italic>Oresteia</jats:italic>. This article argues that Aristophanes alludes to b...

<jats:p><jats:verse-group> <jats:verse-line>εἰ δέ τιϲ ὄλβον ἔχων μορφᾷ παραμεύϲεται ἄλλουϲ,</jats:verse-line> <jats:verse-line>ἔν τ᾽ ἀέθλοιϲιν ἀριϲτεύων ἐπέδειξεν βίαν,</jats:verse-line> <jats:verse-line>θνατὰ μεμνάϲθω περιϲτέλλων μέλη, 15</jats:verse-line> <jats:verse-...

<jats:p>The <jats:italic>Florilegium Coislinianum</jats:italic> (nine/tenth century), a largely unpublished Byzantine spiritual anthology, provides a fuller perspective on an intriguing exegetical work attributed to Athanasius of Alexandria, the <jats:italic>Fragmenta i...

<jats:p> <jats:verse-group> <jats:verse-line>45           τόλμᾳ γὰρ εἰκώϲ</jats:verse-line> <jats:verse-line>θυμὸν ἐριβρεμετᾶν θηρῶν λεόντων</jats:verse-line> <jats:verse-line>ἐν πόνῳ, μῆτιν δ᾽ ἀλώπηξ,</jats:verse-line> <jats:verse-line>αἰετοῦ ἅ τ᾽ ἀναπιτναμένα ῥόμβον ἴ...

<jats:p>Like most other fragments of Nicander's <jats:italic>Georgica</jats:italic>, fr. 74 is preserved by Athenaeus, who presents it as a catalogue of flowers used for making wreaths (15.683a Νίκανδρος δ’ ἐν δευτέρῳ Γεωργικῶν καταλέγων καὶ αὐτὸς στεφανωτικὰ ἄνθη). Tra...

<jats:p>In the anapaestic sequences of Eur. <jats:italic>Alc.</jats:italic> 93–7 and 105–11, a fast-paced exchange takes place between two choreuts (or two groups of choreuts) eager to learn about Alcestis’ fate. The two passages pose several metrical and textual proble...