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The Figure of Mary Mother of God in Christus Patiens: Fragmenting Tragic Myth and Passion Narrative in a Byzantine Appropriation of Euripidean Tragedy (2017)
Journal Article
Bryant Davies, R. (2017). The Figure of Mary Mother of God in Christus Patiens: Fragmenting Tragic Myth and Passion Narrative in a Byzantine Appropriation of Euripidean Tragedy. The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 137, 188-212. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075426917000155

The Byzantine passion play Christus Patiens (Christ Suffering) is a cento: composed of quotations and borrowings from other sources, it takes Euripides’ tragedies as its main source for reworking the passion narrative. The genre, popular with Christi... Read More about The Figure of Mary Mother of God in Christus Patiens: Fragmenting Tragic Myth and Passion Narrative in a Byzantine Appropriation of Euripidean Tragedy.

Performance Space (2017)
Book Chapter
Thomas, E. (2017). Performance Space. In W. A. Johnson, & D. S. Richter (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of the Second Sophistic (181-201). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199837472.013.15

This chapter explores how public speakers of the second and third centuries ce, accustomed to extravagant physical demonstrations of their art, exploited the architectural spaces where they performed. Theaters, temples, and smaller roofed assembly bu... Read More about Performance Space.

Trouble in Pontus: The Pliny-Trajan Correspondence on the Christians Reconsidered (2017)
Journal Article
Corke-Webster, J. (2017). Trouble in Pontus: The Pliny-Trajan Correspondence on the Christians Reconsidered. Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974. Online), 147(2), 371-411. https://doi.org/10.1353/apa.2017.0013

The letters exchanged by Pliny and Trajan concerning Christians have occasioned abundant commentary. But scholarship remains confused over two questions—first, Pliny's procedure and motivation in writing, and second, the extent of the emperor's respo... Read More about Trouble in Pontus: The Pliny-Trajan Correspondence on the Christians Reconsidered.

Speusippus and Xenocrates on the Pursuit and Ends of Philosophy (2017)
Book Chapter
Horky, P. S. (2017). Speusippus and Xenocrates on the Pursuit and Ends of Philosophy. In H. Tarrant, F. Renaud, ‎. D. Baltzly, & D. Layne (Eds.), Brill's companion to the reception of Plato in antiquity (29-45). Brill Academic Publishers

Ovid and Catullus: The Silence of Time. (2017)
Book Chapter
Ziogas, I. (2017). Ovid and Catullus: The Silence of Time. In A. Michalopoulos, S. Papaioannou, & A. Zissos (Eds.), Dicite, Pierides (202-219). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Historic Towns Atlas: Winchester (2017)
Book
Biddle, M., Clayre, B., Keene, D., Morris, F., & Thomas, E. (2017). Historic Towns Atlas: Winchester. The Historic Towns Trust and the Winchester Excavations Committee

Wie man eine Platonstelle deutet: Exegetische Strukturen im Mittelplatonismus (2017)
Journal Article
Petrucci, F. (2017). Wie man eine Platonstelle deutet: Exegetische Strukturen im Mittelplatonismus. Philologus, 162(1), 55-91. https://doi.org/10.1515/phil-2017-0019

In this paper I analyse the most important pieces of evidence concerning the structure of Middle Platonist exegesis (passages from Diogenes Laertius, Taurus of Beirut, the anonymous Commentary on the Theaetetus, Longinus). At first sight these source... Read More about Wie man eine Platonstelle deutet: Exegetische Strukturen im Mittelplatonismus.