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Essays and Verse

The Sculptural Moment in Pindar
Paolo Vivante

Last Stop
George Seferis
(Translated by Roderick Beaton)

From the Civiliation of Prometheus to Genetic Engineering: The Role of Technology and the Uses of Metaphor
Claude Calame

Homeric Simile
Francis Blessington

Early Travellers to Lesbos
Peter Green

The Plague
Virgil
(Translated by Kimberly Johnson)


Dionysus Now: Dionysian Myth-History in the Sixties
John Carlevale



Beatus Ille
Horace
(Translated by Elizabeth Jones)


Greek Laughter and the Prolem of the Absurd
Stephen Halliwell


Peripheral Vision
Rachel Hadas


Ovid, Bernini, and teh Art of Petrification
Paul Barolsky

Reviews

Traditions and Translations: Hebrew, the Bible, and Their Afterlife in Modern Literature
Robert Alter, The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary
Ken Frieden

What's Hecuba to Me?
Hecuba: The Royal Shakespeare Company at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Translated and directed by Tony Harrison.
Howard Stein