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A Journal of Humanities and the Classics                                                                                                                   

Vol. 2.1   
 
 
 
 
 
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EDITOR IN CHIEF

 

Herbert Golder

 

EDITORIAL BOARD

 

Robert Alter

D.S. Carne-Ross

Anne Carson

Diskin Clay

Peter Green

Frank Kermode

B.M.W. Knox

Alasdair MacIntyre

Glenn W. Most

Alexander Nehamas

Martha Nussbaum

David Rosand

Stanley Rosen

Vincent Scully

Oliver Taplin

 

MANAGING EDITOR

 

Nicholas Poburko

Below is the table of contents for the print version of this issue. Articles available for viewing are highlighted in blue, and require Adobe Acrobat Reader. For access to additional content, please consider a subscription or the purchase of a back issue.

 

Essays

War and Grace: The Force of Simone Weil on Homer
Adrian Poole

Nature and Art in the Shield of Achilles
Thomas K. Hubbard

Visual Trope and the Portland Vase Frieze: A New Reading and Exegesis
Randall L. Skalsky

Vergil and the Heart of Darkness: Observations on a Recurring Theme
Michael Poliakoff

The Locus Inamoenus: Another Part of the Forest
Daniel Garrison

A Perfect Ruin: Nineteenth-Century Views of the Colosseum
Andrew Szegedy-Maszak

Skinny-Dipping with Pliny
Janet Lembke

Three from Tibullus:
1.2 ("Adele merum vinoque . . . ")
1.6 ("Semper, ut inducar . . . ")
1.10 ("Quis fuit horrendos . . . ")

Rachel Hadas

Voices of Silence: On Gregory Vlastos' Socrates Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher, by Gregory Vlastos
Alexander Nehamas


 

 

 

Reviews

Voices of Silence: On Gregory Vlastos' Socrates
Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher, by Gregory Vlastos
Alexander Nehamas

"Reading for Life": Martha C. Nussbaum on Philosophy and Literature
Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature, by Martha C. Nussbaum
Robert Eldridge

Reply to Robert Eldridge
Martha C. Nussbaum


Syme Concludes Roman Papers, vols. VI -VII, by Ronald Syme
Ramsay MacMullen

Ovid A-Mused
Ovid: The Love Poems, translated by A. D. Melville, with introduction and notes by E. J. Kenney
Leslie Cahoon




 

 

 

 

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