Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics

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    Fall 2012, Vol. 19.3

    Inside this issue:

Essays and Verse

On Pope Benedict’s Address to the Bundestag
Werner Herzog

The Listening Heart: Reflections on the Foundations of Law
His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI

Homecoming and the Humic: Eleanor Wilner, Brian Jungen, and Derek Walcott
Andrea Nightingale

After Du Fu
Steven J. Willett

The Enlightenment Gone Mad (I)
The Dismal Discourse of Postmodernism’s Grand Narratives
Rainer Friedrich

Virgil and Heaney: “Route 110″
Michael C. J. Putnam

Defining Defending Odysseus
Charles Rowan Beye

Orpheus’ Plea (Prière d’Orphée)
Marie-Jeanne Durry
(Translated by John Fraser)

Did Williams Do Ethics?
Raymond Geuss

Review

The Alexandrian Iliad
Caroline Alexander, The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer’s “Iliad” and the Trojan War
James Tatum

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.