Among the topics are the archaeological background of the earliest graffiti and finds from Methone, from Gabii and Gordion to Eretria and Methone: the rise of the Greek alphabet, alphabets and dialects in the
Euboean colonies of Sicily and Magna Graecia: what could have happened in Methone, and wine and the early history of the Greek alphabet: early Greek vase-inscriptions and the Symposion.
While there is a
Euboean soldier who is aware of Stratippocles' situation and is willing to buy her (153-5), the deception Epidicus had earlier practiced proves to be an obstacle.
Unlike Dio's
Euboean Oration in which the countryside is always presented positively and the city negatively, Longus' idyllic narrative is not ideal--cf.
The huge side of the
Euboean rock is carved into a cavern, to which lead a wide hundred entrances, a hundred mouths, from which rush as many voices, the Sibyl's responses.
The Pendent Semi-Circle Skyphos: A Study of Its Development and Chronology and an Examination of It as Evidence for
Euboean Activity at Al Mina (BICS Suppl.
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Euboean Greek of the early eighth century B.C., the adapter, in Powell's words, "took from a Phoenician informant an abecedarium and created from it his own system" of writing.' The adapter learned from his informant that each regular stipple of the Phoenician consonantal alphabet represented a particular recurrent syllable of the Phoenician language.
Cadiz, Castillo de Dofia Blanca, and Huelva (where an
Euboean skyphos fragment was found [p.
He adduces Dio's '
Euboean' oration and the Elder Seneca's Controversiae to demonstrate the intimate (and perhaps two-way) relationship between rhetoric and Greek and Roman prose fiction.