The most extraordinary criminal case in many respects in Upper Canada was that of a person charged with crimes committed by \William Townsend.2 William Townsend was born near Fort Porter, now Black Rock, in the State of New York in 1828. His father Robert Townsend was o...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This paper deals with the epigram of Herodicus (<jats:italic>apud</jats:italic> Ath. 5.222a). First it is examined as a piece of Greek literature—with a history, a number of imitators, a Greek intellectual and scholarly context,...

The Codex Vratislaviensis, which was suppose to have got lost during the Second World War, proves to be identical with a codex which is nowadays preserved in the Library of the Congregation of Missionary Fathers in Cracow,

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This contribution examines an assembly speech that was pronounced by Dio of Prusa in the context of a grain crisis (<jats:italic>Or.</jats:italic> 46) in order to provide new insights into the politics of the Greek <jats:italic>...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The term κειµήλιον is usually translated as treasure or heirloom. It would designate treasured precious objects conveying the memory and history of their past owners. In the Homeric poems, the κειµήλια are signs of the wealth an...

Author(s): Mastronarde, DJ | Abstract: © 2019 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. This article reviews The Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek, a major resource for learners and teachers that incorporates many insights from modern linguistics. While not a...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>In this article, I examine the name of a friend and correspondent of the fourth-century poet Rufius Festus Avienius, commonly identified hitherto as Flavianus Myrmeicus. After summarising the current state of research and transla...

Word-final syllables consisting of a short vowel or a short vowel followed by a single consonant sometimes scan as heavy in Latin hexameter poetry, a feature known as ‘irrational lengthening’, lengthening in arsis, diastole etc. We examine the contexts in which this occ...

The title of Menander’s Sikyonioi has long posed major critical challenges.1 While the earliest sources, the colophon of the Sorbonne papyrus (third century BCE) and a wall painting from Ephesus (second century CE), attest to the masculine plural title Σικυώνιοι,2 later...