Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, volume 64, number 3 (2024) [Open Access].

CONTENTS INCLUDE

“Do not focus on their barbarous tongue”: The Languages of the Monasteries of Early Byzantine Syria
Paweł Nowakowski

The literary sources and a tabulation of the Syriac inscriptions, examined together, suggest that Syriac rather than the local Aramaic or Greek was preferred in the epigraphy of monastic sites.

Euclid out-of-place? A Geometrical Diagram in a Manuscript of the Corpus Hermogenianum
Chiara D'Agostini

A lengthy scholion on the rhetorical figure kyklos is illustrated by a geometrical diagram taken from Euclid’s Elements, suggesting the fluidity of boundaries between the trivium and the quadrivium in the middle Byzantine period.

The Lost Poems on the Muses by Theodoros Gazes
Julian Bértola and Anthony Ellis

Recently discovered in the margins of a ms. of Herodotus of 1480, the poems are published together with an introduction on the social contexts of their composition and transmission.

A Compilation of Excerpts from John Xiphilinus’ Epitome of Cassius Dio
Dimitrios Nikou

Unpublished excerpts from Xiphilinus contained in Paris.gr. 1310 serve to illustrate the personal interests of a reader of Roman history in the fifteenth century.

Redating Bessarion’s Against the Slanderer of Plato: His Defense of Plato and Platonic Politics
Scott Kennedy

New manuscript discoveries show that Bessarion’s redactions evolved quickly in 1467 rather than earlier, a hasty response to George of Trebizond’s plan to send his anti-Plato Comparison to the Turks.