Sunday, February 22, 2026

Ritual and Performativity: The Chorus in Old Comedy

 

Hellenic Studies Series 

In this groundbreaking study, Anton Bierl uses recent approaches in literary and cultural studies to investigate the chorus of Old Comedy. After an extensive theoretical introduction that also serves as a general introduction to the dramatic chorus from the comic vantage point, a close reading of Aristophanes’s Thesmophoriazusae shows that ritual is indeed present in both the micro- and macrostructure of Attic comedy, not as a fossilized remnant of the origins of the genre but as part of a still existing performative choral culture. The chorus members do play a role within the dramatic plot, but they simultaneously refer to their own performance in the here and now and to their function as participants in a ritual. Bierl’s investigation also includes an unparalleled treatment of the phallic songs preserved by Semos. 

Hellenic Studies Series 20. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.ebook:CHS_Bierl.Ritual_and_Performativity.2009.


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Open Access Journal: ARCHAI: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental

[First posted in AWOL 19 March 2012, updated 22 February 2026]

ARCHAI: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental
ISSN: 1984-249X versão eletrônica
ARCHAI: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental é uma publicação semestral do Grupo Archai: As Origens do Pensamento Ocidental, grupo interdisciplinar e interinstitucional que congrega pesquisadores das áreas de filosofia, história, letras, direito e arqueologia de diversas instituições universitárias brasileiras.

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No. 35 (2025): Archai 35 (2025)

Published: 2025-03-25

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Location: Universidade, Macapá - Amapá, Brazil

Genos Dikanikon: Amateur and Professional Speech in the Courtrooms of Classical Athens

Under the Athenian democracy, litigants were expected to speak for themselves, though they could memorize a speech written for them. The texts of about one hundred judicial speeches of the genos dikanikon (the forensic genre) have survived, all attributed to Demosthenes or another of the ten writers of canonical status. These professionals wrote either for themselves or members of a small elite. Victor Bers argues that men too poor to afford a professionally written speech frequently spoke before judicial bodies in procedures crucial to their status, wealth, or even their lives, and that these amateur performances often manifested an unmanly yielding to emotions of anger or fear; professional speech, Bers seeks to demonstrate, was to a large degree crafted in reaction to amateur stumbling. 

Hellenic Studies Series 33. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.ebook:CHS_Bers.Genos_Dikanikon.2009.


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Open Access Journal: Synthesis

 [First posted in AWOL 6 January 2022, updated 22 February 2026]

Synthesis
ISSN 0328-1205 versión impresa
ISSN 1851-779X versión electrónica

 
Revista científica semestral que publica artículos originales e inéditos y reseñas bibliográficas sobre temas comprendidos en el ámbito de los conceptos de Filología, Filosofía y Literatura griega y su recepción en autores posteriores.

Número actual

Vol. 33 Núm. 1 (2026)

febrero - julio

Publicado: 2026-02-01

Artículos

Los diferentes ‘mundos’ de la écfrasis en el canto XVIII de la Ilíada

Iustin Alexandru Folea Hosteanu

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Todos tus muertos: lance patético, repugnancia y sufrimiento en Antígona de Sófocles

Katia Obrist

e170

El uso del arte de medir y la justa medida en el Político

Matías Ezequiel Kogel

e171

En la casa y en la calle: los tránsitos femeninos en la Atenas clásica

Irune Valderrábano González

e172

Estoy al servicio de Eros: un análisis lingüístico-literario de Alciphr. I 21

Entre la tratadística retórica, la epistolografía ficticia y la epigramática erótica

Ismael El Bahraoui Pérez

e173

Un análisis de la aischrología en los Anécdota (Historia Secreta) de Procopio

Gastón Alejandro Prada

e174

Reseñas

Ruth Scodel (Ed.) A Companion to Apollonius of Rhodes. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2025, 365 pp., ISBN: 978-0472133604

Antonia Cabra

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Werther Gonzáles León (Ed.), Filosofía helenística. Tras los vestigios de la naturaleza, Quito, Universidad Central del Ecuador – Filosófica Editorial

(Colección Filosófica Actual), 2024, 423 pp., ISBN: 978-9942730800

Pedro Emilio Rivera Díaz

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Claudia N. Fernández, M. Inés Moretti y Manon Ertola Urtubey. Recorriendo Esopo. Lecciones de Griego. Ediciones UNL/EDULP, 2023; 232 pp., ISBN 978-6316568113

Graciela Noemí Hamamé

e177

María Silvina Delbueno. El mito de Medea en obras argentinas contemporáneas. Violencia y territorio en la argentinización de un mito: Ediciones Corregidor, 2024; 250 pp., ISBN: 978-9500534109

Víctor Guzzo

e178



 

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Saturday, February 21, 2026

Open Access Journal: Onoba. Revista de arqueología y antigüedad

[First posted in AWOL 24 April 2016, updated 21 February 2026]

e-ISSN: 2340-4027
ISSN: 2340-3047  
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      Onoba, Revista de Arqueología y Antigüedad, con ISSN 2340-3047, es una publicación del Área de Arqueología de la Universidad de Huelva, de periodicidad anual y editada desde el año 2013. Esta revista utiliza el sistema de revisión externa por expertos (peer-review) en el conocimiento de los objetos investigados y en las metodologías utilizadas en las investigaciones. Adopta y se adhiere a las normas de publicación establecidas por la APA.
Onoba, Revista de Arqueología y Antigüedad, tiene como objeto la difusión de los resultados de la investigación teórica y técnica sobre arqueología y mundo antiguo. Los trabajos deben ser originales, no publicados, ni estar siendo considerados en otra revisa para su publicación. Serán considerados para publicación los siguientes tipos de trabajos: investigaciones originales, novedades recientes,  y reseñas críticas sobre textos recién publicados.

Núm. 13 (2025)

Publicado: 2025-12-17 

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Open Access Journal: Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique (recent issues)

[First posted in AWOL 2 August 2019, updated 21 February 2026]

Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique [Back issues available at Persée] [Accessible also at CEFAEL]
eISSN: 2241-0104 

Bulletin de correspondance hellénique
Depuis 1877, le Bulletin de correspondance hellénique rend compte de la recherche scientifique sur la Grèce ancienne, de la préhistoire à l’époque byzantine, dans les domaines de l’archéologie, de l’histoire et de l’épigraphie. Publié par l’École française d’Athènes, le Bulletin est semestriel. Les volumes 1877 à 2010 sont disponibles sur Persée.

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Open Access Journal: Ariadne

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Ariadne is edited by an Editorial Board chaired by the Dean of the School of Philosophy. Board members are appointed by each of the three Departments of the School.
Ariadne publishes original research, book reviews and review articles in all the research fields covered by the School of Philosophy of the University of Crete.
A special section is dedicated to the annual teaching and research activities of the Faculty and the events organized by the School and its three Departments.
 
Ariadne welcomes submissions by all members of the international academic community who specialize in the fields mentioned above. The journal follows a double-blind peer-review process.
Submission of a paper automatically implies acceptance by the author of the editorial terms and policies of Ariadne. Authors are personally responsible for the content and form of their submissions. They are expected, for instance, to acknowledge their debts and sources, to have secured the rights for publication of photos and all other illustrative material, etc.
The Editorial Board does not accept papers, book reviews or review articles that are simultaneously submitted to other journals. Authors are required to submit for consideration final versions. Once the review process has started the Editions Committee does not accept changed versions.
Papers, book reviews and review articles are submitted in electronic form (MS Word and PDF) by email to the Dean of the School of Philosophy: dean@phl.uoc.gr or by mail to:

Dean of the School of Philosophy
University of Crete, Gallos Campus
741 00 Rethymnon

Upon publication authors receive an electronic offprint of their contribution in PDF form and two copies of the printed volume.

Volume 31 (2024 – 2025)
Vol. 31 (2025)

Full Issue

Articles

Honorary Doctorate Award Ceremony

In memoriam

Conferment of Emeritus Professorships

Honorary Ceremony

 

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