Although bees are a frequent motif in ancient literature, the people who work with bees are often left in the background. An exception is the motif of the older man on his - usually small - farm who lives from and with his bees. The article shows that this motif is a to...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>In Melanipp. <jats:italic>PMG</jats:italic> 762 the reading βροτῶν (v. 1) of the MSS can be retained. The god invoked as “lord of the everlasting soul” (v. 2), generally identified with Dionysus-Zagreus, can be rather recognized ...

International audience; This paper analyses the meaning of μύκλος in two passages of Lycophron’s Alexandra (771 and 816). The thorough study of the contexts shows that the most likely interpretation of the word in both verses is “donkey”: μύκλοις γυναικοκλῶψιν “woman-st...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This paper investigates the ascription of a passage in Isidore’s <jats:italic>Differentiae</jats:italic> to the jurist Modestinus. A collection of philological notes by the humanist scholar Barthius reports the existence of a (n...

This paper aims to provide a new interpretation of the first riddles of the Aenigmata ascribed to Symposius, discussing two technopaignia that seem to have gone unnoticed by scholars. The first one is the boustrophedon acrostic TAVROD ("by the ox” or "from the ox”), emb...

In Claudian's panegyric on the occasion of the consulship of Olybrius and Probinus, the speech delivered by the goddess Roma concludes with the wish that the Ganges, conquered, may flow between Roman towns. This wish has links not only with the image, in the laudatio of...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The tenth prefatory letter of Pollux’ <jats:italic>Onomasticon</jats:italic> transmits two otherwise unattested pieces of information concerning the existence of an anonymous commentary on Xenophon and of a treatise by Eratosthe...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>In 359 CE Constantius II appointed investigators into the fall of Amida, who confronted Ursicinus, a commander in the East, about the disaster. He refused to play along, answering them instead with a stirring outburst that predic...