Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics

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Celebrating and Redefining the Classics for 20 years

    Fall 2011, Vol. 19.2

    Inside this issue:

Essays and Verse

Three Poems
Valerie Wohlfeld

Philip Marlowe Meets the Art Historian
Paul Barolsky

Improvisations on Salvatore Quasimodo
Martin Bennett

Who Owns Reason?
 Colin Wells

The Shield and the Lyre:
Archilochian Inspirations
Michael Andrews

Rembrandt: The “I” Witness
Zhenya Gershman

Facing the Minotaur:  Inception (2010) and Aeneid 6
Julia D. Hejduk

The Heritage of Jacqueline de Romilly
David Bouvier

Two Poems
Christopher Nield

Fiction

Clodia Muses
Marguerite Johnson

Reviews

Homer Who?
M. L. West, The Making of the Iliad: Disquisitions and Analytical Commentary
Norman Austin

A Thick-Skulled Rationalist
Wisława Szymborska, Here
Myles Weber

Recolenda

A Crusade for the Humanities: From the Letters of Cardinal Bessarion
(Translated by Avi Sharon)

Phoenix Award

Editor in chief Herbert Golder was awarded the 1992 Council of Editors of Learned Journals Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement for revitalizing Arion.

APA Outreach

In 2004, the American Philological Association awarded Arion and Dr. Golder its inaugural Outreach Award for bringing classics to readers outside the academy.