Uri Schor, Vered Raziel-Kretzmer, Moshe Lavee, and Tsvi Kuflik University of Haifa 1. Introduction “Tanhuma / Yelamdenu Literature” is a vast literary corpus of rabbinic homilies to the Hebrew Bible. It is a diverse group of interrelated texts, evolved through a long process of fluid and unstable oral and written… Read more
Andrew Smith, Shepherds Theological Seminary Abstract In the late 1980s, businesses were collecting customer data because they knew it was valuable to what would later be termed business intelligence, but until the 1990s there was no clear path to how to mine and usefully exploit those data. The New Testament… Read more
Kyklos Volume 1 27 June 2012 Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington,Center for Hellenic Studies, Nafplio, GreeceUniversity of WashingtonUniversity of TorontoUniversity of FloridaDurham University Epic Cycle: Early Conceptualization and Later ReceptionEfstathia Maria C. Athanasopoulou (CHS, Nafplio, Greece)Respondent Jonathan Burgess Diomedes between the Iliad and the Epic CycleCatherine Goode (Durham University)Respondent… Read more
Back Taphians and Thesprotians Within and Beyond the Odyssey Rebecca Rohdenberg & Jim Marks It is undisputed that the Homeric account of Odysseus took shape in the midst of various and often conflicting stories about the hero’s parentage, involvement in the Trojan War, and protracted return. [1] As… Read more
Back Tydeus and the Cadmaeans Catherine Goode In the 2010 edition of Trends in Classics, edited by Christos Tsagalis and entitled “Homeric Hypertextuality”, Mary Ebbott explored how we can use hypertextual links in the Iliad to discover more about the Theban tradition of stories, which may provide possible links… Read more
Back Slaughter at the Altar: The Career of Neoptolemus at Troy in the Epic Cycle and Beyond Edward Bertany In his Description of Greece, Pausanias provides an extremely detailed ekphrasis of the famous murals completed by Polygnotus in the first half of the fifth century BCE at the Cnidian… Read more
Back Lesches and the Contest between Homer and Hesiod Paola Bassino In this paper I offer a new analysis of Plutarch’s Dinner of the Seven Sages 153f–154a, one of the most interesting testimonia about Lesches, one of the alleged poets of the Epic Cycle. In this passage Lesches is… Read more
Lithika AB 3 Questo [rubino] scintillante in cui [l’incisore ha intagliato] una coppa rapisce le umide luci della vista [scavato com’è] in triplice voluta. Ma tu [apprezza] le novità e [accogli,] signora, [questo dono] durante il convito. Traduzione: Franco Ferrari AB 11 Non [pietra] tutta scintillante d’argento,… Read more
Posidippus, Epigrams, Pap. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309 LithikaOionoskopika Tropoi top Lithika AB 20 Wie einmal Du die ganze Helike mit ihren Felsenspitzen durch eine einzige Welle an den Sand erleuchtetest,so würdest Du auch Eleusis schlagen, ähnlich einem hundertfacher Hurrikan, sofern Demeter Deine Hand nicht küssen würde.Nur… Read more
Posidippus, Epigrams, Pap. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309 HippikaIamatikaLithika NauagikaTropoi top Hippika AB 71 Mon cheval de course, Fougueux, [fut vainqueur,] et moi aussi, dans la même course pythique.A deux reprises je fus proclamé vainqueur, moi Hippostratès, et mon cheval remporta le prix avec… Read more
