This issue opens with an article by Juan Manuel Arriaga Benítez, "The Thetis Jupiter Rejected: Hesiodic Closure of Dethronements in a Valerian Ekphrasis (Arg. I, 130-139)", based on one of the paintings that adorns the ship of the Argonauts in Valerius Flaccus, which briefly describes the wedding of Thetis and Peleus. This decoration has two predominant interpretations: the conquest of the ocean and the anticipation of the marriage of Medea and Jason. However, the article proposes a third interpretation associated with the cycle of alternations of the dethronement of one supreme god by another, the closure of which is brought about by Zeus/Jupiter as the god of indisputable power.
"The vocabulary of erogenous zones in the Palatine Anthology" by Esteban Calderón Dorda is a study on the vocabulary of erogenous zones by the epigrammatists of the Palatine Anthology. It highlights the occurrence of popular language alongside technical terms and reveals a poetic mastery in the skilful way in which they have all been combined with high quality amphibologies or euphemisms.
Soledad Correa examines death, drama, and exemplarity as three focal points by which to approach Seneca’s letter collection in "Non trepidabo ad extrema: mors, performance and exemplarity in SEN., epist. 54". The chosen letter is a meditatio mortis and establishes the moment of death as a decisive performance by which to assess one’s own life. This letter can be read as the staging of an essay on forced suicide, the subsequent account of which in Tacitus (Ann. 15, 60–64) would lead to an interpretation of a certain coherence with what has been theorised and an agreement between oratio and vita.
"Edition of Pseudo-Hippocrates, De venae sectione (excerpt from Galen, De cur. rat. per venae sect.)" by Elsa García Novo includes the edition of a small treatise on phlebotomy mainly attributed to Hippocrates, which contains thirteen manuscripts. It is, in fact, an excerpt from Galen’s De curandi ratione. The paper establishes a stemma of the texts by grouping them into three families, and the comparison with Galen’s original uncovers several important findings.
Antonio Ramón Navarrete Orcera examines the "Greek inscriptions of the decoration of Schliemann’s House in Athens". Apart from the suitability of the inscriptions to the rooms where they are located, the study shows that what characterises the majority (48, in total) is their preceptive and moral value. The texts were taken from the most important Greek masters, the seven sages, and from preserved fragments of the Palatine Anthology, thus revealing Schliemann’s mastery of the texts.
Joaquín Pascual-Barea’s article presents a study of the place-name of Noheda (Cuenca, Spain), claiming that it stems from Novata, the name of a nearby Roman villa. The villa’s mosaics depict several theatrical pieces, with scenic references to a story by Apuleius and a verse from Plautus’ Amphitruo.
The last article in the series is by María Teresa Santamaría Hernández and is dedicated to etymology, "Etymology of ajar and the lost ajo, and their Relation to Alear and Lío". The Spanish verb ajar (allēuare) is formally and semantically linked to the noun ajo, which is different in origin and meaning from the homograph and homophone associated with the vegetable frequently used as a culinary ingredient. Other previous interpretations of ajar are considered. The different uses and meanings in Spanish of the term ajo deriving from ajar are also analysed and explained, thereby revealing the connection with the word lío. The formal and semantic differentiation between both ajos has clarified some long-standing confusion in the field of lexicography.
The issue ends with two critiques of two recent works: Guus Kroonen (ed.), Sub-Indo-European Europe, reviewed by Marcos Medrano Duque, and Francisco García Jurado’s Teoría de la tradición clásica. Conceptos, historia y métodos, reviewed by Genaro Valencia Constantino.