Fortunatae number 37 contains seven articles and two reviews covering a wide range of topics such as classical historiography, the oratory of Aeschines or Dinarchus, Renaissance grammar, Minoan epigraphy, late classical rhetoric, textual criticism, and Greek Christian exegesis.
In the first article, Ignacio Carral discusses possible points of connection between the works of Titus Livius and Polybius. Leonardo Ferreira and Melyssa Cardozo examine the evolution of the term “letter” in 16th-century Portuguese grammars and their relationship with the evolution of this discipline after the Renaissance. Christina Papadaki’s article on Greek epigraphy raises the hypothesis of the apotropaic or protective sense of the message inscribed on several pieces of Minoan jewellery. Liliana Pégolo and Alexis Robledo explore the function of the ekphrasis that Claudius Claudianus, a bilingual Greek and Roman author of the Second Sophistic school, used as the backbone to his entire epic tale and not merely as a rhetorical–stylistic device. Pedro E. Rivera focuses on aspects of textual criticism, by analysing several terms in the manuscript tradition of Photius’ Biblioteca, whose erroneous interpretation may have led to an inadequate transmission of the text. María Alejandra Valdés examines the proem to Basil of Caesarea’s Hexaemeron from the perspective of classical precepts and rhetoric and the role they play in biblical exegesis. In the last article, Silvia Vergara sets out part of her research studies on the religious and irreligious lexicon in classical Greek oratory. As a contribution to furthering knowledge of the political context in which it evolved, she explores the semantic values and role in the use of rhetorical and stylistic devices.