The series consists of a variety of monographs from the fields of Classical Philology and Ancient History. While maintaining a broad thematic and methodological scope, the editors are especially keen on studies showing a thorough and critical engagement with the relevant literary texts and primary sources.

This edition of the Ephesiaca ist based on: 1) a new and accurate reading of the difficult codex unicus; 2) a practically full knowledge of emendations proposed by other scholars from 1700 to the present; and 3) conjectures offered by the present editor. In the preface some aspects of the early modern history of the text are clarified.