• Winner of the Inaugural APA Scholarly Outreach Award
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Fall 2009, Vol. 17, No. 2
   
 
 
 
 

 

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Marianne McDonald
Peter Green
Frank Kermode
Alasdair MacIntyre
Glenn W. Most
Alexander Nehamas
Martha Nussbaum
Camille Paglia
David Rosand
Oliver Taplin

 

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Below is the table of contents for the print version of this issue. Articles available for viewing have the title in blue. For access to the other content, please consider a subscription or the purchase of a back issue.


Essays and Verse

Goals, Origins, Disciplines
Raymond Geuss
(click here to read in pdf)

Regulus
E. Louise Beach


Possession and Pneuma: The Essential Nature of the Delphic Oracle
Peter Green
(click here to read in pdf)


Tim's Ajax
Lawrence Dugan


Michelangelo's Wet Nurse
William E. Wallace


St. Peter's Creek, 23 July
T. O'Hara


The Backward Glance
Shane Butler


From Hades to Zeus and Demeter
Georgia Syribeys


Reviews

Tyranny of the Text: The Bacchae:
Euripides, The Bacchae, translated by Nicholas Rudall, directed by Joanne Akalaitis; original music by Phillip Glass, produced by The Public Theater at the DelacortT Theater

Peter Meineck
(click here to read in pdf)


“By Means of Performance”:
Western Greek Mythological Vase-Paintings, Tragic “Enrichment,” and the Early Reception of Fifth-century Athenian Tragedy
   Oliver Taplin, Pots and Plays: Interactions between Tragedy    and Greek Vase-painting of the Fourth Century B.C.
Ismene Lada-Richards

In Memoriam

Pour Jean-Pierre Vernant: En profonde amitié.
Marcel Detienne
(translated by Janet Lloyd)

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