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- publication . Article . 2020RestrictedAuthors:Christian Vassallo;Publisher: Brill
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>At the end of his treatise <jats:italic>On Piety</jats:italic>, Philodemus systematically criticizes Stoic theology, employing an <jats:italic>excursus</jats:italic> on Diagoras as part of his critique. Arguing against Diagoras’...
- publication . Article . 2020RestrictedAuthors:Miriam Valdés Guía;Publisher: Brill
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>In Attica, Pallas was a giant apparently related to the sanctuary of Athena at Pallene. Pallene recalled the eponymous Chalcidian region and thus echoed the myth of the Gigantomachy. In some versions, Athena performed the Pyrrhi...
- publication . Article . 2020RestrictedAuthors:Sergios Paschalis;Publisher: Brill
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Ovid’s fascination with Catullus’ Ariadne throughout his career has been the focus of considerable critical discussion and scholars have identified a plethora of Ovidian <jats:italic>female</jats:italic> figures imitating the sp...
- publication . Article . 2020RestrictedAuthors:Piotr Stępień;Publisher: Brill
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This article discusses four newly discovered <jats:italic>technopaegnia</jats:italic> in Musaeus’s <jats:italic>Hero and Leander</jats:italic>. The author argues that they are interconnected and constitute a complex literary gam...
- publication . Article . 2020RestrictedAuthors:Chiara Ferella;Publisher: Brill
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Some Byzantine scholia to Aristotle offer numerical indications on the time-length of some phases of Empedocles’ cosmic cycle. In recent years an interpretation has become established, according to which the scholia pro-vide evi...
- publication . Article . 2020RestrictedAuthors:Tunç Türel;Publisher: Brill
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>In this paper an intertextual relationship between Ammianus’ <jats:italic>Res gestae</jats:italic> and Xenophon’s <jats:italic>Anabasis</jats:italic> is proposed and contextualized. This intertextuality, which occurs in the form...
- publication . Article . 2020RestrictedAuthors:Theodore Hill;Publisher: Brill
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This article examines arguments used in the fifth century in favour of unjust action. Three main lines of argument are distinguished: (i) arguments based on ordinary human behaviour, employed by Glaucon in Plato’s <jats:italic>R...
- publication . Article . 2020RestrictedAuthors:Levente László;Publisher: Brill
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The present paper investigates the texts attributed to the astrological author Julianus of Laodicea. The authenticity of a work ascribed to him is re-examined, the genuine fragments are collected and evaluated, and possible furt...
- publication . Article . 2020Open AccessAuthors:Gabriel A.F. Silva;Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>In this article, I examine the nature of Dido’s magic ritual in <jats:italic>Aeneid</jats:italic> 4, reading it as a magic ritual aimed at inducing forgetfulness. I argue that in burning his belongings, Dido intends to forget Ae...
- publication . Article . 2020RestrictedAuthors:Albert Joosse;Publisher: Brill
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This review article considers two recent Italian and English translations of works by Olympiodorus of Alexandria and his immediate successors (sixth century <jats:sc>CE</jats:sc>). These translations make accessible to a wider a...