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Three Passages of Ancient Prolegomena to Aratus (2023)
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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.

The Mocking Homer of the Exegetical Scholia to the Iliad (2022)
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Machine-learning the Sato–Tate conjecture (2022)
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We apply some of the latest techniques from machine-learning to the arithmetic of hyperelliptic curves. More precisely we show that, with impressive accuracy and confidence (between 99 and 100 percent precision), and in very short time (matter of sec... Read More about Machine-learning the Sato–Tate conjecture.

Ratios of Artin L-functions (2021)
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We study the cancellation of zeros between the Riemann zeta function and certain Artin L-functions. To do so, we develop a converse theorem for Maass forms of Laplace eigenvalue 1/4 in which the twisted L-functions are not assumed to be entire. We do... Read More about Ratios of Artin L-functions.

Representation and novelty in Aeschylus' Theoroi (2019)
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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.

Tippling but not toppling: Eubulus PCG fr. 123 (2019)
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Proposes a new reconstruction of the text of Eubulus fr. 123 = Athenaeus 1.23b.

A further manuscript source for Proclus' Hymns (2016)
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Bruxellensis 11377-80 ff. 1-4 contains a previously uncatalogued text of Proclus Hymns 3.12-7.52 and Orphic fr. 31 Bernabé, copied by Demetrios Moschos in c.1490 from Mutinensis Est. gr. 164.

Manuscript readings in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter 389-479 (2015)
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Evidence for the text of this passage based on a re-examination of the damaged page in Leidensis BPG 33H.

Sophocles, seduction and shrivelling: Ichneutai fr. 316 Radt (2015)
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Proposes that this fragment, like other fragments of Ichneutai, betrays the influence of the Homeric Hymn to Hermes.

Phemius Suite (2014)
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This article examines four connected aspects of Phemius’ performance in Odyssey 1. The first section examines the poet’s unusual technique in relating Phemius’ music to other, simultaneous sounds in the ‘soundscape’ of Odysseus’ hall. The second argu... Read More about Phemius Suite.