Issue 97 of Symbolae Osloenses carries fifteen articles on Greek and Latin language and literature.
The Greek articles illuminate Greek literary production from the Archaic period to the Renaissance. Their topics contribute to ongoing discussions concerning literary history (Guillermo Galán Vioque on the authorship of ps.-Archilochus frr. 327–328 W2), textual criticism (Peter Hulse on Apollonius Rhodius Argonautica 4.26–27), literary criticism (Giulio Celotto on Agathon’s song in Aristophanes Thesmophoriazousae 101–129), linguistics (Dannu Hütwohl on the early semantics of ποινή and Pindar fr. 133 in particular; Leon Wash on the dual participles in Empedocles fr. 23 DK; Raf Van Rooy and Sanderijn Gijbels on the evidential force of the particle που in Attic drama; Antonia Apostolakou on the occurrence of Coptic graphemes in monolingual Greek documents; Rafał Rosoł on the plant names of alleged Egyptian origin in ps.-Dioscorides) as well as history and intellectual history (Hugh Lindsay on the factors and biases that may have shaped Strabo’s account of early imperial Egypt; Irene Pajón Leyra on the philosophical background of accounts of animal behaviour in Pliny, Aelian and Plutarch, which echo “barbarian” customs).
The Latin articles discuss textual criticism (Maxwell Hardy on the text of two fragments by Varro Atacinus; Álvaro Cancela Cilleruelo on textual problems in an anonymous Late Latin rhythmical poem; within a larger project on the earliest transmission of Augustinus De civitate Dei Julia Aguilar Miquel constructs a stemma of the Carolingian mss. containing Book 22) and literature (Heiko Ullrich on poetological aspects of Phaedrus Fabulae, Book 2; Gottfried Mader on the contradictory depiction of the emperor Otho in Tacitus Historiae 1.21 and 2.47).