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Antony of Tagrit and the progymnasmata: Towards a Syriac rhetorical theory in the Abbasid Era (2024)
Journal Article
Nicosia, M. (2024). Antony of Tagrit and the progymnasmata: Towards a Syriac rhetorical theory in the Abbasid Era. Histoire Epistémologie Langage, 46(2), https://doi.org/10.4000/12v6a

This paper investigates the engagement with Greek progymnasmata exercises shown by the first rhetorical handbook in Syriac: Antony of Tagrit’s On Rhetoric (ninth century). Despite lacking any specific reference to progymnastic authors or texts and ha... Read More about Antony of Tagrit and the progymnasmata: Towards a Syriac rhetorical theory in the Abbasid Era.

Syriac Rhetorical Lexica: Towards the Compilation of a Trilingual Dictionary (2024)
Book Chapter
Nicosia, M. (2024). Syriac Rhetorical Lexica: Towards the Compilation of a Trilingual Dictionary. In M. Nicosia (Ed.), Syriac Lexis and Lexica: Compiling ancient and modern vocabularies. Gorgias Press

The paper discusses the challenges posed by the creation of a trilingual lexicon (Syriac-Greek-Arabic) of the technical vocabulary of rhetoric and its advantages. It will present the selected corpus, the proposed layout of the lemmas, and a selection... Read More about Syriac Rhetorical Lexica: Towards the Compilation of a Trilingual Dictionary.

Order and chaos in the ancient Greco-Roman philosophical imagination (2024)
Journal Article
Horky, P. S. (2024). Order and chaos in the ancient Greco-Roman philosophical imagination. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2877, Article 012085. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2877/1/012085

When did chaos come to be opposed to order? This paper considers the earliest references in the Western world to the concepts of “chaos” (Xάος) and “order” (κόσμος), understood as cosmological concepts; these terms are first attested in the epic Theo... Read More about Order and chaos in the ancient Greco-Roman philosophical imagination.

Crystalising Initiation: The ephebic inscriptions of Hellenistic Athens (2024)
Book Chapter
Christopher, D. L. (2025). Crystalising Initiation: The ephebic inscriptions of Hellenistic Athens. In J. H. Vennebusch (Ed.), Inscribing Initiation: Written Artefacts in Rites of Passage (135-154). Franz Steiner Verlag

The ephebic inscriptions of Hellenistic Athens were annually erected honorific monuments commemorating young Athenian men’s completion of the ephebate, a year-long training programme that initiated them into public life. These monuments, composed of... Read More about Crystalising Initiation: The ephebic inscriptions of Hellenistic Athens.

Heliodorus’ Aethiopica in Antony of Tagrit’s Fifth Book of Rhetoric: A Follow-up Study, Sixteen Years after the Discovery (2024)
Journal Article
Nicosia, M. (2024). Heliodorus’ Aethiopica in Antony of Tagrit’s Fifth Book of Rhetoric: A Follow-up Study, Sixteen Years after the Discovery. Le Muséon, 137(1-2), 137-169. https://doi.org/10.2143/MUS.137.1.3293318

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.

The Conditionality of Helenus’ Oracle and Tragic Choice in Sophocles’ Philoctetes (2024)
Journal Article
McPhee, B. D. (online). The Conditionality of Helenus’ Oracle and Tragic Choice in Sophocles’ Philoctetes. Mnemosyne: A Journal of Classical Studies, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1163/1568525x-bja10270

Helenus’ oracle in Sophocles’ Philoctetes is commonly misunderstood as an unqualified revelation of an immutable future: the gods have fated Philoctetes to rejoin the Greek army at Troy. This has occasioned further misinterpretations of the play, es... Read More about The Conditionality of Helenus’ Oracle and Tragic Choice in Sophocles’ Philoctetes.

The Narratives of Cicero's Epistulae ad Quintum Fratrem: career, republic and the Epistulae ad Atticum (2024)
Journal Article
Losito, L. (online). The Narratives of Cicero's Epistulae ad Quintum Fratrem: career, republic and the Epistulae ad Atticum. Classical Quarterly, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0009838824000181

The narrative and design of Cicero's overlooked collection of letters to his brother Quintus (henceforth, QFr.) demand investigation. Within each book, the constituent letters delineate the trajectory of Cicero's life, transitioning from his politica... Read More about The Narratives of Cicero's Epistulae ad Quintum Fratrem: career, republic and the Epistulae ad Atticum.

Bernini’s Two Theatres and the Trauma of Classical Reception (2024)
Journal Article
Thomas, E. (2024). Bernini’s Two Theatres and the Trauma of Classical Reception. Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, 10(1), 131-146

This article compares how the theatrical architectural spaces of Francesco Guitti at Parma and Gian Lorenzo Bernini at Rome used classical traditions of spectacle to satisfy contemporary sensationalist demands. Guitti’s stage machinery devised after... Read More about Bernini’s Two Theatres and the Trauma of Classical Reception.

Built space, written space: baroque spatialities between architecture and text in Lucan, Statius, and the palaces of imperial Rome (2024)
Journal Article
Thomas, E. (in press). Built space, written space: baroque spatialities between architecture and text in Lucan, Statius, and the palaces of imperial Rome. Antichthon, 58,

This paper discusses two imperial Roman literary descriptions of architectural space (Luc. 10.111-135 and Stat. Silv. 4.2) as responses to the real architectural space of imperial palatial complexes in Rome, Nero’s Golden House and Domitian’s Palatin... Read More about Built space, written space: baroque spatialities between architecture and text in Lucan, Statius, and the palaces of imperial Rome.

The Orient In Herodian (2024)
Journal Article
Hekster, O., & Kaizer, T. (in press). The Orient In Herodian. Historia,

This paper investigates appearances of the Orient in Herodian. Firstly, through the way in which the East, the Orient, and the opposition between West and East, appears and reappears as a literary theme throughout Herodian’s History and as such trigg... Read More about The Orient In Herodian.

The evidence for Greek drama (2024)
Book Chapter
Jackson, L. The evidence for Greek drama. In D. Stuttard (Ed.), Looking at Greek Drama. Bloomsbury

Ian Worthington, Athens after Empire. A History from Alexander the Great to the Emperor Hadrian, New York – Oxford (Oxford University Press) 2021, 432 S., ISBN 978-0-19-063398-1 (geb.), £ 35,49 (2024)
Journal Article
de Lisle, C. (2024). Ian Worthington, Athens after Empire. A History from Alexander the Great to the Emperor Hadrian, New York – Oxford (Oxford University Press) 2021, 432 S., ISBN 978-0-19-063398-1 (geb.), £ 35,49. Klio, 106(1), 348-355. https://doi.org/10.1515/klio-2024-2010

Pinpointing Linguistic Emphasis in Classical Greek (2024)
Journal Article
Vatri, A. (2024). Pinpointing Linguistic Emphasis in Classical Greek. Mnemosyne: A Journal of Classical Studies, 77(6), 896-909. https://doi.org/10.1163/1568525x-bja10233

Emphasis is a ubiquitous notion in classical scholarship, but its vagueness has repeatedly been criticized (and its usefulness, consequently, questioned) by Greek linguists. This brief study seeks to identify (and secure) a place for this notion in t... Read More about Pinpointing Linguistic Emphasis in Classical Greek.