Scylax of Caryanda, Pseudo-Scylax, and the Paris Periplus: Reconsidering the Ancient Tradition of a Geographical Text [PDF]
, 2016 The Periplus preserved in the manuscript Parisinus suppl. gr. 443, and erroneously ascribed to Scylax of Caryanda (sixth century BC), is the oldest extant specimen of ancient Greek periplography: it belongs to the second half of the fourth century.
Atzori, Manfredo +5 more
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, 1987 This paper offers a hypothetical reconstruction of Euripides' lost Telephus, burlesqued in Aristophanes' Acharnians and Thesmophoriazusae. It defends the position that Telephus defended the Trojans, and suggests that Telephus made two defence speeches ...
Heath, M.
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The Self-Definition of Hellenic Identity through the Culture of Mousikē [PDF]
, 2019 Altgriechische Quellen sind voll von Verweisen auf die Musik von Völkern, die nicht griechisch sind und deshalb stereotyp als ,Barbaren‘ bezeichnet werden.
Rocconi, Eleonora
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King Midas' Ass's Ears Revisited [PDF]
, 2008 On several occasions the Phrygian King Midas was portrayed with donkey’s ears in Greek literature and art. There is no text that offers a plausible explanation of Midas’ strange appearance and later commentators provide many competing stories to account ...
Vassileva, Maya
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The Thracian Bosporus between Europe and Asia in fact and fiction (II/I millennium BC) [PDF]
, 2021 The Thracian Bosporus is an unavoidable case study if we are searching for spaces and reasons for the definition of boundaries and separators – natural or ethnic – between the Ancient Greek and Near East worlds.
PRANDI, LUISA
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The Macedonian army as a vehicle for change? Military presence in western Asia Minor during the early Hellenistic period: topography, agency and identity [PDF]
, 2021 Alexander the Great’s expedition and the Wars of the Successors after his death saw a great number of armies deployed in Asia Minor, many of which were key to the development of the political powers that emerged during the Hellenistic period.
Mestre Gonzalez, Cristina
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Telephus on Paros: genealogy and myth in the 'new Archilochus' poem (P. Oxy. 4708) [PDF]
, 2014 The discovery of the new ‘Telephus Elegy’ in 2005 has transformed our knowledge of Archilochus by providing the first surviving example of his use of myth. Yet scholars have found the choice and handling of the Telephus myth surprising. This article will
Swift, Laura
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Early Iranian Riders and Cavarly [PDF]
, 2023 The expansion of the Iranian peoples in first centuries of the 1st millennium BCE coincides with the creation and further development of the cavalry warfare in western Eurasia, as well as with the creation of the pastoral nomadic life-style which ...
FARROKH, Kaveh +5 more
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John Tzetzes and the pseudo-Aristotelian Peplos in middle-Byzantium. The testimony of the "Matritenses gr." 4562 and 4621 [PDF]
Tras mi reciente edición de los pseudo-aristotélicos Pepli Epitaphia, el presente trabajo se centra en los apochrypha a dichos epitafios que compuso Juan Tzetzes en el siglo xii, un conjunto de ocho dísticos elegíacos para los héroes que consideró ...
Martins de Jesus, Carlos A.
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\u27The Greatest in Human Memory\u27: Reevaluating the Lydia Earthquake [PDF]
, 2020 In his Natural History, Pliny the Elder referred to the Lydia earthquake of 17 AD as maximus terrae memoria mortalium... motus, the largest, or alternatively the greatest, earthquake in the memory of humanity, with twelve major cities of the province of ...
Shiller, Max
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