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The Lives of Latin Texts collects papers presented at a 2018 conference in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University in honor of Richard Tarrant on the occasion of his retirement. The breadth of authors, genres, periods, and topics is testament to Tarrant's influence on the fields of Latin literary studies and textual criticism.

Albert's Anthology comprises 76 brief and informal reflections on a line or two of Greek or Latin poetry-and a few prose quotations and artistic objects-composed by colleagues and students of Albert Henrichs, who devoted his scholarly career to Greek literature and religion-especially his favorite Greek god, Dionysos.

This volume of nineteen articles offers: Marianne Palmer Bonz, "The Jewish Donor Inscriptions from Aphrodisias: Are They Both Third-Century, and Who Are the Theosebeis?"; Timothy W. Boyd, "Where Ion Stood, What Ion Sang"; and C. O. Brink, "Can Tacitus' Dialogus Be Dated? Evidence and Historical Conclusions."

The twenty articles in Volume 103 include: Renaud Gagne, "Winds and Ancestors: The Physika of Orpheus"; Jonas Grethlein, "The Poetics of the Bath in the Iliad"; Daniel Turkeltaub, "Perceiving Iliadic Gods"; Ruth Scodel, "The Gods' Visit to the Ethiopians in Iliad 1"; and Alberto Bernabe, "The Derveni Theogony: Many Questions and Some Answers."

The twenty articles in Volume 102 include: Mika Kajava, "Hestia: Hearth, Goddess, and Cult"; Jonathan Burgess, "Untrustworthy Apollo and the Destiny of Achilles: Iliad 24.55-63"; Anna Bonifazi, "Relative Pronouns and Memory: Pindar beyond Syntax"; and William Race, "Pindar's Olympian 11 Re-Visited Post-Bundy."

Based on a Harvard Art Museums symposium on the acquisition of Margarete Bieber's coin collection, Sculpture and Coins addresses the relation between large statuary and miniature art in the private and public domain. Scholars from various disciplines explain the importance of coins for identifying and analyzing Greek and Roman portraiture.

Images for Classicists shows how text and image taken together complicate and enrich our understanding of ancient culture. Working to dissolve distinctions between text- and artifact-based scholarship, it explores challenges the digital revolution poses to curators and sketches ways that image-based collections may be deployed in the future.

Focusing on the return of the diasporic second generation to Greece, primarily in the first decade of the twenty-first century, Counter-Diaspora examines migration experiences of Greek-Americans and Greek-Germans growing up in the Greek diasporic setting, motivations for the counter-diasporic return, and evolving notions of the "homeland."

This volume includes: Lucia Athanassaki, "Transformations of Colonial Disruption into Narrative Continuity in Pindar's Epinician Odes"; Christina Clark, "Minos' Touch and Theseus' Glare: Gestures in Bakkhylides 17"; James J. Clauss, "Once upon a Time on Cos: A Banquet with Pan on the Side in Theocritus Idyll 7"; and many others.

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 107 includes "Alcman's Nightscapes (Frs. 89 and 90 PMGF)" by Felix Budelmann; "Epicharmus, Tisias, and the Early History of Rhetoric" by Wilfred Major; "The Literary and Stylistic Qualities of a Plinian Letter" by Thomas Keeline; and other essays.

Elina Tsalicoglou offers an English rendition of Konstantinos Dapontes's idiosyncratic poem "Canon of Hymns Comprising Many Exceptional Things," and selected passages from one of his most important works, Garden of Graces. These are accompanied by notes and a detailed introduction to the life and work of this significant Greek author.

Yatromanolakis examines the complex, at times contradictory, responses to ancient Greece in Greek and broader Western European modernism. Exploring the dynamics of ruination and the reconfiguration of fundamental icons of ancient mythology in surrealism, the author shows that Greek antiquity was an integral constituent of avant-garde myth-making.

This volume of 16 essays includes, among others, "Sequence and Simultaneity in Iliad N, , and O," by Cedric H. Whitman and Ruth Scodel; "Two Inscriptions from Aphrodisias," by Christopher Jones; and "The Authenticity of the Letter of Sappho to Phaon (Heroides XV)," by R. J. Tarrant.

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 106 includes Natasha Bershadsky, "A Picnic, a Tomb, and a Crow: Hesiod's Cult in the Works and Days"; Alexander Dale, "Sapphica"; Guillermo Galan Vioque, "A New Manuscript of Classical Authors in Spain"; Jarrett T. Welsh, "The Dates of the Dramatists of the Fabula Togata"; and other essays.

Working in a renewed Aristotelian tradition, Guillelmus de Aragonia wrote De nobilitate animi, "On Nobility of Mind," around 1280-1290 and taught that true nobility is an acquired, not inborn, quality. This edition, based in part on hitherto unknown manuscripts, presents the Latin text with an English translation, an introduction, and appendix.

This volume celebrates 100 years of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. It contains essays by Harvard faculty, emeriti, currently enrolled graduate students, and most recent Ph.D.s. It displays the range and diversity of the study of the Classics at Harvard at the beginning of the twenty-first century.