Forthcoming: GRBS Vol 52 No 2 (Summer 2012)

Ulrike Kenens, “Greek Mythography at Work: The Story of Perseus from Pherecydes to Tzetzes”

Comparison of the versions of Ps.-Apollodorus, his main source Pherecydes, Byzantine scholars, and the D-scholia to Homer makes clear the distinct agendas and methods, including selectivity and contaminatio, used by mythographers of different periods.

Janek Kucharski, “Vindictive Prosecution in Classical Athens”

The Attic orators show that revenge could be an admitted and legitimate motive on the part of a prosecutor, and that such a personal agenda might be felt and portrayed not as contradictory to the impersonal rule of law but as a partner to it.

Pantelis M. Nigdelis, “A New Procurator Augusti in the Province of Macedonia”

An honorific inscription of the first century from Thessalonica reveals an imperial freedman, probably a T. Flavius, and his family, and shows that this city was the seat of the imperial procurators of Macedonia.

Mohammad Nassar and Nizar Turshan, “Plant Mosaics in the Church at Ya῾amun”

The decor of this sixth-century church in Jordan includes a number plant motifs, some of them traditional, but others quite original and innovative when compared with other mosaics of the region.

Frederick Lauritzen, “Pagan Energies in Maximus the Confessor: The Influence of Proclus on Ad Thomam 5”

Maximus drew on the pagan Proclus in order articulate a passage of Dionysius the Areopagite in such a way as to support a view of two ‘powers/energies’ of Christ.

Jorie Soltic and Mark Janse, “From Enclisis to Proclisis in Medieval Greek: σὲ λέγω and its Uses in the Chronicle of Morea

Expressions of saying, frequent in the Chronicle, illustrate a context for the late shift to proclisis, as they are found treated as a whole and rendered proclitic by a reanalysis that made the first word dependent on the second rather than being enclitic on what precedes.

Anthony Kaldellis, “The Interpolations in the Histories of Laonikos Chalkokondyles”

Passages in Book 9 that are shown by style and vocabulary to be interpolated contain detailed information on the last rulers of Trebizond; they derive from 1460–1470s Constantinople and the circle of Georgios Amiroutzes and Demetrios Angelos.

Guillermo Galán-Vioque, “Isaac Vossius’ Sylloge of Greek Pattern Poems”

Tracing the sources that Vossius (1618–1689) used in compiling his anthology of Greek technopaegnia (Leiden ms. Vossius misc. 13) illuminates both his research methods and the evolution of his dispute with Salmasius.