I-VI -- Preface -- Contents -- Epic and Lyric Poetry -- Originality and Intentionality -- A Thousand Shapes of Death : Heroic Immortality in the Iliad -- Is Hector androphonos? -- Form und Funktion des Weltaltermythos bei Hesiod -- Sappho´s Circumstances -- Sappho and Acheron -- Kynaithos, Polycrates, and the Homeric Hymn to Apollo -- Pindar´s Myths: Two Pragmatic Explanations -- ??? ???????: Pindar, Nemean 5.22 -- Poetry as Pharmakon in Theocritus´ Idyll 2 -- Drama -- O suitably - attired-in-leather-boots. Interpolations in Greek Tragedy -- Attossa´s Absence in the Final Scene of the Persae of Aeschylus -- A Problem of Attribution at Aeschylus Supplices 1055: Stephanus´ Source -- Recognizing what when and why? The Recognition Scene in Aeschylus´ Choephori -- Yielding to Forethought: Sophocles´ Ajax -- On the Eye´ and the Phallos´ and Other Permutabilities, in Oedipus Rex -- Sophocles, Electra 1087; Text and Context -- A Note on Lions and Sophocles, Philoctetes -- Solar Imagery and Tragic Heroism in Euripides´ Hippolytus -- Helen and Persephone, Sparta and Demeter. The Demeter Ode´ in Euripides´ Helen -- Iphigeneia in Love -- Sacrificial Ritual in the Bacchae -- Let Them Eat Cakes - Three Food Notes to Aristophanes´ Peace -- Boy Actors in New Comedy -- Optatives of Consent and Refusal -- Society and History -- Hero Cult in the Age of Homer´ and Earlier -- The Athenian Law against Hybris -- Polis Tyrannos: Zur Entstehung einer politischen Metapher -- Leonidas the Regicide? Speculations on the death of Kleomenes I -- Imperialism and Stasis in Fifth Century B.C. Ionia. A Frontier Redefined -- Thucydides 2.65.12 -- The Arche of Thucydides´ War -- Poseidon Hippios am Kolonos und die athenischen Hippeis -- Greek Rhetoric and History: the Case of Isocrates -- Antigonus Surnamed Gonatas -- A Metrical Epitaph from Phrygia -- Philosophy -- Nothing as Not-Being : Some Literary Contexts That Bear on Plato -- Stars, Unseen Bodies and the Extent of the Earth in Anaxagoras´ Cosmogony: Three Problems and Their Simultaneous Solution -- Justice and Temperance in Republic IV -- Socrates´ Prayer to Pan -- The Acquiring of Philosophical Knowledge According to Plato´s Seventh Letter -- How Credible are Plato´s Myths? -- Theophrastus on Fate and Character -- History and Philosophy in Plutarch. Observations on Plutarch´s Lycurgus -- Plutarch as Molten Bronze: the Comparison at Amatorius 752D -- Themistius, The Last Peripatetic Commentator on Aristotle? -- Xenophon of Ephesus and the Antithesis Historia-Philosophia -- Aftermath -- Some Loose Ends. A Metrical Note on Horace´s Satires -- Horaz II 13 -- Seneca´s Medea: The Elusive Triumph of Civilization -- Kaltblütiges Schnarchen. Zum literarischen Hintergrund der Vesuv-Briefe des jüngeren Plinius -- A New Papyrus Codex of the Sortes Astrampsychi -- Ovid´s Metamorphoses, Planudes and Ausonians -- Marginalia Utopica. Acht Bemerkungen zur Utopie des Thomas Morus (1478-1978) -- Plates -- List of Plates -- 470-472
