Glen W. Bowersock & Walter Burkert 
Arktouros [PDF ebook] 
Hellenic Studies presented to Bernard M. W. Knox on the occasion of his 65th birthday

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