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Three Passages of Ancient Prolegomena to Aratus (2023)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

Machine-learning the Sato–Tate conjecture (2022)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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.

The Homeric Hymn to Hermes (2020)
Book

The Homeric Hymn to Hermes is the longest surviving hymn from early Greece, our fullest source for the god Hermes, and an entertaining narrative of theft, invention, cheekiness, and learning to get along. This study contains a new text of the poem, b... Read More about The Homeric Hymn to Hermes.

Representation and novelty in Aeschylus' Theoroi (2019)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

Proposes a new reconstruction of the text of Eubulus fr. 123 = Athenaeus 1.23b.

Music in Euripides' Medea (2018)
Book Chapter

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

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

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.

Sparring partners: fraternal relations in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes (2017)
Book Chapter

Discusses the presentation of conflict and modes of conflict-resolution in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes.

Homeric and/or hymns: some fifteenth-century approaches (2016)
Book Chapter

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.

A further manuscript source for Proclus' Hymns (2016)
Journal Article

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.

Greek hymnic spaces (2015)
Book Chapter

This chapter surveys how space is presented in a range of ancient Greek hymns, both literary and cultic. It proposes as a framework for analysis a distinction between the space of the god addressed, that of the human performers and audience, and that... Read More about Greek hymnic spaces.

Manuscript readings in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter 389-479 (2015)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

Proposes that this fragment, like other fragments of Ichneutai, betrays the influence of the Homeric Hymn to Hermes.

Creating Problemata with the Hippocratic corpus (2015)
Book Chapter

Discusses the various ways in which the Aristotelian Problemata engage with the Hippocratic Corpus, in particular the ways in which they convert Hippocratic material into their question-and-answer format.

Phemius Suite (2014)
Journal Article

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.