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Debate persists over the value and significance of the final episode in Odyssey 24 in which Odysseus and the male members of his household dominate the suitors’ male relatives in combat (Taplin, 33; Slatkin, 327). This two-part paper offers a new analysis of the poem’s ending. Part I uses two sources of comparanda to denaturalize the battle’s presence in the poem: from both mythographic and folkloristic perspectives the battle appears exceptional. Part II explains the thematic impact of this break with precedent.

The existence of cyclical poems next to the Iliad and Odyssey can lead to gemination: the cyclical poem can be seen either as a (lost) source on which the Homeric tradition draws or as a form of “fan fiction,” providing the sequel or prequel to the plot of the Homeric poem, filling in its gaps, or detailing events outside of the plot that are referred to in the poem.

The Act of Truth

The Perfect Participle Active in Homer: Against an Aeolic Phase

Gk. Χείρων, Hitt. kiššeraš ^dUTU‑uš and Rudrá‑ ‘of healing hand’

The invention of the Greek accent marks

Purpose

Aristophanes of Byzantium is credited with inventing the signs for Greek accents, breathings, and vowel lengths, according to a single source: a passage found in two sixteenth-century Paris manuscripts. The passage has a doubtful history, but the story it tells generates considerable interest (see Prauscello 2006: 33–40, with bibliography). This paper argues that at least for the material on accents the passage had a source that was in Latin, and whose subject was the Latin accent.

Limited Grassmann’s Law in Latin

Following the lead of Walde 1906, Weiss 2011:156 posits the dissimilation of the first of two successive aspirates when the intervening syllable contained a liquid. The examples cited are:

*b^hard^heh₂ ‘beard’ (cf. OCS brada, OE beard) > *bardhā >> barba not †farba.

*d^hrag^heti ‘drags’ (cf. OE dragan) > *dragheti > trahit not †frahit

This paper will consider how civic practices and ideology concerning stasis, conflict and reconciliation can be used to track and interpret changes in Greek approaches to citizenship and civic community in the later Hellenistic world (c. 150–31 BC). It will contribute to the aims of this proposed panel by bringing together the study of stasis, reconciliation, citizenship and political ideology.

In 2010, the Inscriptiones Graecae volume for Kos debuted a new, largely unpublished decree for foreign judges (IG XII 4 1 132; recent commentary: Thür, Scafuro, Gray). Foreign judges—citizens sent by one polis to adjudicate politically sensitive lawsuits in another polis—represented an important institution for resolving civil conflict in the Greek cities of the Hellenistic period (Robert, Crowther, Gauthier). Most decrees for foreign judges are highly formulaic and non-specific.

In about 340 B.C., the people of Eretria decided to add competitions in musical and other cultural events to the city’s biggest festival, the Artemisia, which was celebrated in honour of Artemis at her extra-urban sanctuary at Amarynthos, as we know from the inscribed decree (RO 73). Modern scholars’ interests in both the document and the festival have been limited to providing parallels for the musical and cultural contests at the Panathenaia in Athens (e.g. Rhodes and Osborne 2005: 365-366) and to using the Artemisia as an example of a festival celebrating the city (e.g.