<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Our primary evidence for the contribution of Cleanthes, the second Stoic scholarch, to the school’s distinctive theory of cyclical <jats:italic>ekpyrosis</jats:italic> (conflagration) is limited to a single difficult passage fou...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This paper discusses problems of staging, address and word order in Greek tragedy to shed light on a controversial passage in Sophocles: <jats:italic>Aj.</jats:italic> 339-343. Ajax’s cry within, <jats:styled-content xml:lang="e...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>A lead tablet from Apollonia in Illyria exhibits the last strophe of a paean to Asclepios, that is transmitted in its entirety on inscriptions from four other cities. This article presents some alternative readings of the new fr...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>At the premiere of Euripides’ <jats:italic>Orestes</jats:italic> in 408 <jats:sc>BCE</jats:sc>, the actor Hegelochos, playing the part of Orestes, made a small but destructive error in his performance: while attempting to delive...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The Chronicle by Marcellinus was intended as a sequel to its predecessor Jerome but demonstrates marked differences concerning the underlying historiographic and narrative ideas. The text is distinctly orthodox and emphasizes bo...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This paper aims to show how local civic communities, nominally subject to the Seleucid dynasts, integrated Roman magistrates into an existing framework of authority during the late second and early first centuries <jats:sc>BCE</...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Greek works <jats:italic>On Ways of Life</jats:italic> have been seen to consist in either collections of biographies or proper philosophical treatises. Recently, a unitary reading of this literary phenomenon has been advanced, ...