Forthcoming

GRBS 65.1:

Fatih Onur, “Rhodian Funerary Epigrams at Gagai (Lycia)”

Three Doric epigrams discovered near Gagai and published here add to the evidence on Rhodian colonization in southeastern Lycia in Archaic and Classical times.

Anna Lefteratou, “Erotic Magic in the Pulpit: Fictional and Historicist Contexts of Gregory’s Panegyric of Cyprian (Or. 24)”

Gregory Nazianzus’ sermon in 379 fused distinct Cyprians (of Carthage and Antioch) in order to illustrate carnal eros transformed into divine desire, and to impugn the magical practices associated with Antioch and the Eunomians.

Lorenzo Livorsi, “From Latin to Greek and Back Again: Translations, Interpolations, and Abuses of a Law of Theodosius II (Cod.Theod. 16.5.66)”

The translation history of a law of Theodosius II (abridged in Cod.Theod., Greek translation of the lost unabridged Latin original in the Acts of the Council of Ephesus, two Latin back-translations of the Greek) illustrates methods and mistakes in the fifth and sixth centuries in the context of the Three Chapters controversy.

Lajos Berkes, “Greek Documents and their Scribes in Eighth-Century Egypt”

The use of Greek as an administrative language in early Islamic Egypt depended heavily on scribes  trained in church institutions  and declined sharply in the eighth century..

Dimitris Krallis, “Impersonal Governance in Byzantium: Bureaucracy, Friendship, and Psellos’ Letters”

Governmental efficiency, usually seen as undermined by personal interests, rested on an ideology of impersonal service which, though often conflicted, animated state officials, as illustrated by Psellos and other letter writers.

Alberto Ravani, “Outlining the Iliad in the Komnenian Age: Between Trojan Matter and Achilles’ Wrath”

Writers in the 12^th century, addressing the difference between the full story of Troy and the Homeric Iliad, viewed Homer as an historian who failed to follow the rule of rhetorical treatises that expected a comprehensive account.

Ugo Valori, “Unifying Fragments of Byzantine Scholarship: Stephanos’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Rhetoric”

An anonymous fragment of commentary on the Rhetoric, preserved in Vat.gr. 1340, can be shown to be the final, previously considered missing section of the commentary on Rhet. of the 12^th-century grammarian Stephanos Skylitzes.

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