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This paper is based on the master’s thesis work conducted by D.Ph. Pocobelli in Sapienza University of Rome in 2014. Although the Aghios Konstantinos Church is currently under restoration processes, this research took place before the restoration of the dome, now finalised. Aghios Konstantinos Church was designed by architect Lysandros Kaftantzoglou at the end of the 19th century. It was being built for more than 20 years, and it was completed after its author’s death. The main façade is characterised by three different levels: the ground floor, the mezzanine or gynaeceum, and the dome.

Destined for War by Graham Allison, former dean of Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and advisor to various US ad-ministrations, has aroused a lively debate in the International Relations the-ory community, for the purpose of explaining the current global strategic environment and US-China economic, diplomatic, cultural and military competition through a framework drawn from Thucydides’s observation of the fifth century BCE Peloponnesian War.

The article deals with some of the textual and exegetical problems of Hermippus fr. 63 K.-A., in which Athens is presented as the centre towards which all kinds of goods flow from the entire Mediterranean. This theme is attested also in other contemporary Athenian writers, and destined to great fortune in later authors. Among other things, the lesson ᾿Ιταλίας is defended (v. 6), and a transposition of v. 9 is proposed, thus restoring the sophisticated and often undervalued overall structure of these hexameters.

Babylonians is a lost play of ARISTOPHANES (Ar. frr. 67-100), produced by CALLISTRATUS (1) at the City DIONYSIA of 426 BCE. Its content, held to be insulting to the Athenian polis, is said to have provoked CLEON to attempt a PROSECUTION of Aristophanes (schol. Ar. ACHARNIANS 378; Life of Ar. 19-29 K-A). DIONYSUS was a character (Ar. fr. 75).