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Greek hymnic spaces (2015)
Book Chapter
Thomas, O. (2015). Greek hymnic spaces. In E. Barker, S. Bouzarovski, C. Pelling, & L. Isaksen (Eds.), New Worlds from Old Texts: Revisiting Ancient Space and Place. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199664139.001.0001

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
Thomas, O. (2015). Manuscript readings in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter 389-479. Mnemosyne, 68(3), https://doi.org/10.1163/1568525X-12341719

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
Thomas, O. (in press). Sophocles, seduction and shrivelling: Ichneutai fr. 316 Radt. Classical Quarterly, 65(1), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009838814000913

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
Thomas, O. (2015). Creating Problemata with the Hippocratic corpus. In R. Mayhew (Ed.), The Aristotelian Problemata physica: philosophical and scientific investigations. Brill

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.