Editorial 

G REEK, ROMAN, AND BYZANTINE STUDIES has been 
founded to demonstrate the continuity of the Greek tradition 

from the rise of Mycenae to the fall of Constantinople - and be­
yond as far as the tradition can be followed into the contemporary 
world. In the pursuit of this objective, literature and art, archaeology 
and history, religion and philosophy will find place. Our primary 
area of concern is the Greek East, both pagan and Christian. RO­
MAN in the title means to convey our equal emphasis upon the 
Greek world in Roman times; and our recognition that the Byzan­
tine period is intelligible only in the light of its legacy through Rome. 

We deplore the growing mutual estrangement among clas­
sicists, Byzantinists, and patristic scholars. We shall try to combat 
the fragmentation of the field into isolated parties of specialists -
whether M ycenists or liturgiologists - by opening these pages to 
scholarly articles significant in scope and intelligible in style to 
every reader interested in any of the special fields or periods of 
the long and broad current of Hellenism. 

Two kinds of articles are contemplated: those which deal di­
rectly with some aspect of the Hellenic tradition over long periods; 
and those which deal rather with particular manifestations of 
Hellenism occurring in short periods. We think that the tradition 
lives today, cbarged with vitality as powerful as ever. In these 
pages we should like to draw upon, and to transmit, something of 
the Hellenic 8vva,",~, 

Though the Hellenic tradition will be conceived broadly, there 
must be limits to what can be accepted. Specialist articles highly 
technical and narrowly defined belong rather to journals devoted 
to their respective areas of specialization. For the large textml 
publication of documents we must count upon our esteemed elders 
among American journals; similarly for excavation reports, for 
numismatic corpora, for special studies of artistic types: normally 
we shall be able to print only shorter pieces of general inter­
est. Ephemeral matter, such as news and routine reviews, we must 
eschew; but we shall hope to present an occasional review-article 
as an essay on the subject of a significant book. 



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Some of the articles in each issue will appear by invitation of 
the editors. To our contributors we offer criticism by responsible 
referees (to whom we record our great indebtedness), prompt de­
cision, and early publication. Articles will bear the date of their 
submission. Plates essential to the text are welcomed; four or eight 
may be published in each number. Volumes will be indexed 
at frequent intervals. Contributors are requested to observe the style 
described in the American Journal of Archaeology 62 (1958) 1-8. 
To our contributors we take pleasure in paying a modest honorarium. 

Two series supplementing this journal are established: GREEK, 
ROMAN, AND BYZANTINE MONOGRAPHS and GREEK, 
ROMAN, AND BYZANTINE SCHOLARLY AIDS. The former 
has been inaugurated by the recently published Monograph 1: G. L. 
Huxley, Anthemius of Tralles, a Study in Later Greek Geometry. 
The monographs may be technical and special: apart from scholarly 
quality there will be no restriction on the character of their con­
tent. Long articles (longer than most journals can accept) as well 
as book-length studies will be published. No special invitation will 
be issued, and no honorarium can be paid. 

The series GREEK, ROMAN, AND BYZANTINE SCHOL­
ARLY AIDS will begin shortly with an Index to the passages 
quoted in H. W. Smyth's Greek Grammar. The purpose of the series 
will be to place in the hands of scholars at low cost tools which will 
prove indispensable. Requests and suggestions are invited. 

A new scholarly journal is not established without travail. 
GREEK, ROMAN, AND BYZANTINE STUDIES was founded 
by the imagination and published for two years by the industry of 
one man, John 1. Bilitz. It is now being carried forward by a board 
of editors and an advisory board. Its first two volumes, sent to initial 
subscribers, contained two issues each. Four issues are planned in 
1960 for Volume 3. The journal will be issued hereafter on a 
regular quarterly basis; the two supplementary series irregularly, as 
opportunity permits. Addresses for communications to the Editor 
and to the Circulation Manager are given on the inside front cover. 

And so the new journal may be allowed to make its bow. 
Defined as we have tried to, it has, we believe, a scope and intent 
not precisely the same as that of any other existing journal. 

THE EDITORS