Abstract

These thirty essays were presented to Alan L Boegehold, a distinguished philologist and an inspirational teacher, on the occasion of his retirement and his seventy-fifth birthday. The contributions fall into two categories, each one reflecting Boegehold's diverse interests in classical studies: the first section includes essays on literary and philosophical topics, several of which pick up on the theme of "gestures"; the second section is representative of Boegehold's more specialised research in Greek epigraphy, history and law. Contents: Biography of Alan L Boeghold; A divine audience for the celebration of Asopichus' victory in Pindar's Fourteenth Olympian Ode (L Athanassaki); Poi de kai pothen; self-motion in Plato's Phaedrus (G W Bakewell); Drinking from the sources: John Barton's Tantalus and the epic cycle (D Boedeker); Mania and melancholy: Some Stoic texts on insanity (M Graver); A gesture in Archilochos 118 (West)? (C Hahnemann); When an identity was expected: The slaves in Aristophanes' Knights (J Henderson); Nemesis and Phthonos (D Konstan); A reading of Ausonius, Professores I (J Pucci); Horace epi. 1.13: Compliments to Augustus (M C J Putnam); When a gesture was misinterpreted: didonai titthion in Menander's Samia (A C Scafuro); Optical illusions in ancient Greece (P Tribodeau); Gesture (W F Wyatt, Jr); Some observations on the Appianos sarcophagus (IGUR 1700) (G Bucher); The first tragic contest: Revision revised (A P Burnett); Notes for a philologist (J McK Camp); Two passages in Thucydides (M Chambers); Livy's narrative habit (J D Chaplin); Athenian prostitution as a liberal profession (E E Cohen); Sanides and Sanidia (John E Fischer); Thuc. 2.13.3: 600 T. of tribute (C W Fornara); Delivering the go(o)ds: Demetrius Poliorcetes and Hellenistic divine kingship (P Green); Lysias 14 and 15. A note on the grafes astrateias (M H Hansen); Counterproposal at Carthage (Aristotle, Politics II.11.5-6) (G L Huxley); Kallias A (IG I3 52A) and Thucydides 2.13.3 (J Kennelly); Slander in ancient Athens: A common law perspective (W T Loomis); The bones of Orestes (D D Philips); The ostracism of Damon (K A Raaflaub); The date of Pnyx III: SEG XII 87, the law of Eukrates on tyranny (337/6 BC) (M B Richardson); Archon dates, atthidographers and the sources of Ath. Pol. 22-26 (J P Sickinger); A major Athenian letter-cutter ca. 410 to ca. 380: The cutter of IG II2 17 (S V Tracy).