Formal and symbolic aspects of its ‘concentric’ structure;  Paradoxical relationships of comparisons and similes in some of Pindar’s Odes and in the poems of Catullus
An essay for a conference of the Society for the Study of Biblical and Semitic Rhetoric, entitled ‘Semitic Rhetoric and Beyond’, held at the Gregorian University, Rome, 2010.

The sight of nudity in some ancient myths, reconsidered with reference to the writings of  Propertius, Ovid and Giordano Bruno.