Paktyas and the conquest of Ionia, the repercussions of a failed revolt

Shortly after invading Lydia, Kyros sent a detachment to conquer the Greek states of Asia Minor. A close reading of Herodotos suggests that this invasion was in fact a response to Paktyas’ revolt. While recent historians such as Rung and Tozzi point to this, they do not put it into words. This paper revises the …

A puzzle of many pieces: a late roll of the Odyssey

The focus of this paper is represented by a papyrus of the Odyssey which proved to be quite challenging to work with this winter. The papyrus presented itself extremely fragmented (only to be found that more pieces had already been published!), in an unusual format, a beautiful calligraphic hand and more problems to tackle once …