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The date of the final destruction of the Palace of Nestor at Pylos (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davis, J. L., Stocker, S. R., Vitale, S., Bennet, J., Brecoulaki, H., & Judson, A. (2021, September). The date of the final destruction of the Palace of Nestor at Pylos. Presented at 15th International Colloquium on Mycenaean Studies, Crete

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.

Archaeological Reports vol. 70 (2024)
Book
Loy, M., Mouratidis, G., & Parikh, T. (Eds.). (2024). Archaeological Reports vol. 70. Cambridge University Press

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
de Lisle, C. (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.

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.