Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics

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Celebrating and Redefining the Classics for 20 years

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    Winter 2013, Vol. 20.3

    Inside this issue:

 

Essays and Verse

Aeneas
Alistair Elliot

Thucydides Quote Unquote
Neville Morley

Two Poems
Lawrence Dugan

Rubens and the “Smell of Stone”:
The Translation of the Antique
and the Emulation of Michelangelo
Steven J. Cody

Demeter
Diana Lueptow

The Wisdom of Oidipous
and the idea of a Moral Cosmos
Raymond Geuss

Three Poems
Brett Foster

Fiction and an Interview

Medea, Fitzgerald Gallery, New York City, 1966
(After Euripides and Bernard Safran)
Marguerite Johnson

Gnedich (1)
Maria Rybakova
(Translated by Elena Dimov)

From a Svoboda Interview: “Disfigured Achilles”
Dmitrii Volchek and Maria Rybakova
(Translated by Taryn Janati)

Reviews

Homer in Translation: The Never-Ending Stream
Homer, The Iliad. Translated by Stephen Mitchell.
Charles Rowan Beye

“The Curious Mixture of Signs” That Is Hieroglyphics
Andrew Robinson, Cracking the Egyptian Code:
The Revolutionary Life of Jean-François Champollion
Colin Wells

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.