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Three Passages of Ancient Prolegomena to Aratus (2023)
Journal Article
Thomas, O. (2023). Three Passages of Ancient Prolegomena to Aratus. Classical Quarterly, 73(1), 419-435. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009838823000435

An eighth-century Latin version of a Greek edition of Aratus preserves valuable ancient scholarship on the Phaenomena, including material not preserved in Greek. Examination of over thirteen thousand Latin–Greek correspondences enables one to interpr... Read More about Three Passages of Ancient Prolegomena to Aratus.

Representation and novelty in Aeschylus' Theoroi (2019)
Journal Article
Thomas, O. (2019). Representation and novelty in Aeschylus' Theoroi. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 62(2), 67-79. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-5370.12107

This article argues in favour of the view that in Aeschylus' Theoroi (aka Isthmiastai) the satyrs had absconded from Dionysus’ choral training, and dedicate a set of votive masks on Poseidon’s Isthmian temple. I propose that at the end of fr. 78c Dio... Read More about Representation and novelty in Aeschylus' Theoroi.

Music in Euripides' Medea (2018)
Book Chapter
Thomas, O. (2018). Music in Euripides' Medea. In T. Phillips, & A. D'Angour (Eds.), Music, text and culture in Ancient Greece. Oxford University Press

Argues for the plausibility of Athenaeus' evidence that Euripides' Medea contained an innovative treatment of melody, and discusses how this may have interacted with what the characters within the play say about musical innovations.

Hermetically unsealed: lyric genres in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes (2018)
Book Chapter
Thomas, O. (2018). Hermetically unsealed: lyric genres in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes. In F. Budelmann, & T. Phillips (Eds.), Textual events: performance and the lyric in early Greece. Oxford University Press

The Hymn to Hermes offers a late archaic or early classical viewpoint on genre in lyric poetry. It compares hymns and theogonies to bantering songs at symposia, apparently in a paradox grounded in Hermes’ ability to control transfers across firm boun... Read More about Hermetically unsealed: lyric genres in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes.

Sacrifice and the Homeric Hymn to Hermes 112-41 (2017)
Book Chapter
Thomas, O. (2017). Sacrifice and the Homeric Hymn to Hermes 112-41. In S. Hitch, & I. Rutherford (Eds.), Animal sacrifice in the ancient Greek world (181-199). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139017886.008

Examines the methodology by which one can connect this passage to historical sacrificial practices. In particular, I critique the previous approaches of Kahn, Clay and Burkert, and argue that the passage can be taken as aetiological with special refe... Read More about Sacrifice and the Homeric Hymn to Hermes 112-41.

Homeric and/or hymns: some fifteenth-century approaches (2016)
Book Chapter
Thomas, O. (2016). Homeric and/or hymns: some fifteenth-century approaches. In A. Faulkner, A. Vergados, & A. Schwab (Eds.), The reception of the Homeric hymns (277-300). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780198728788.001.0001

Discusses the manuscripts of the Homeric Hymns as evidence for how they were read in the fifteenth century, and particular allusions made to them in the works of Francesco Filelfo and Michael Marullus.