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Presbeis Autokratores: A Study in Ancient Greek Diplomacy and Constitutional Law (2023)
Journal Article
Harris, E. (2023). Presbeis Autokratores: A Study in Ancient Greek Diplomacy and Constitutional Law. Klio, 105(2), 510-537. https://doi.org/10.1515/klio-2022-0031

Summary: This essay analyzes the term presbeis autokratores found in historical sources and in inscriptions. Previous scholars have not been able to give a consistent account of the term, which appears to vary in meaning. The analysis starts by exami... Read More about Presbeis Autokratores: A Study in Ancient Greek Diplomacy and Constitutional Law.

Making the voice matter in English Studies Teaching (2023)
Journal Article
Holmes-Henderson, A., & Wright, T. F. (2023). Making the voice matter in English Studies Teaching. English, 72(278), 87-95. https://doi.org/10.1093/english/efad023

This introduction frames the guest edition of the journal on ‘Oracy and English Studies’. The pieces in this special forum explore how a renewed focus on speaking can re-imagine what it means to ‘do English’. We are two university-level teachers, one... Read More about Making the voice matter in English Studies Teaching.

Heliodorus’ Aethiopica in Antony of Tagrit’s Fifth Book of Rhetoric: A Follow-up Study, Sixteen Years after the Discovery (2023)
Journal Article
Nicosia, M. (in press). Heliodorus’ Aethiopica in Antony of Tagrit’s Fifth Book of Rhetoric: A Follow-up Study, Sixteen Years after the Discovery. Le Muséon, 137,

Due to the absence of Syriac translations of ancient Greek novels or explicit references to any of them in the Syriac literature, scholars agreed for a long time that these texts never reached Syriac environments. However, in 2008, Aldo Corcella reco... Read More about Heliodorus’ Aethiopica in Antony of Tagrit’s Fifth Book of Rhetoric: A Follow-up Study, Sixteen Years after the Discovery.

Wikipedia in Classics Education (2023)
Journal Article
Judson, A., Shields, K., & Leonard, V. (2023). Wikipedia in Classics Education. Bulletin of the Council of University Classics Departments, 52,

Studying ancient orthography (2023)
Book Chapter
McDonald, K., & Dupraz, E. (2023). Studying ancient orthography. In Cambridge Handbook of Historical Orthography (285-304). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108766463

The study of orthography (spelling and writing systems), and its development over the history of language, is central to many areas of linguistic enquiry, offering insight into syntactic and morphological structures, phonology, typology, historical l... Read More about Studying ancient orthography.