The paper, which argues that Greek philology needs an injection of cultural relativism and attention to indigenous ways of thinking (‘ethnopoetics’), focuses on the problems of genre and cultural distance in reading early Greek poetic texts and especially Pindar and Bacchylides, and on how we can understand what these texts… Read more
The fate of Palamedes fascinated classical Athens: unjustly accused by Odysseus, he was convicted of treason and executed by the Greek army in Troy. The paper explores this fascination in relation to the catalogues of benefaction that seem to have been a constant in depictions of the story. The catalogues… Read more
Aristophanes’ comic narrative of a miracle cure of Asklepios in Wealth 627-759 reflects a model for representing this experience that would later manifest itself in the healing stories set up in the god’s sanctuary at Epidauros. In this early instantiation, the model already displays the influence of the sanctuary in… Read more
This paper focuses on an Athenian decree implementing a fundamental metrological reform at the end of the 2nd century BCE. This text has been known for a long time, since it was seen and copied by Michel Fourmont in Athens in 1729. The inscription is now lost, so that Fourmont’s… Read more
