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A Journal of Humanities and the Classics                                                                                                                   

Vol. 4.2   
 
 
 
 
 
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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

Writing on the World: Simonides, Exactitude, and Paul Celan
Anne Carson

"The Mercurial Significance of Raiding": Baby Hermes and Animal Theft in Contemporary Crete
Adele Haft

Pindar and the Prostitutes, or Reading Ancient "Pornography"
Leslie Kurke

Labyrinth of Desire: Cretan Myth in Us
Ruth Padel

Myth, Tradition, and Ideology in the Greek Literary Revival: The Paradoxical Case of Yannis Ritsos
Peter Green

Translations

On the Yellow Thistles, George Seferis
translated by Diskin Clay

The King of Asine, George Seferis
Romiosini, Yannis Ritsos
translated by Avi Sharon

 

Voices from the Front

Cortez in Darien
Alan Farrell


Reviews

Burkert's Orientalizing Revolution
Walter Burkert,
The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age
Martin Bernal


Classical Verse Translated
Adrian Poole and Jeremy Maule, editors,
The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation
Charles Tomlinson


East Coast Oedipus: Suspicious Readings
Frederic Ahl,
Sophocles' Oedipus: Evidence and Self-Conviction
Pietro Pucci,
Oedipus and the Fabrication of the Father: Oedipus Tyrannus in Modern Criticism and Philosophy
Charles Segal, Oedipus Tyrannus: T
ragic Heroism and the Limits of Knowledge
Simon Goldhill


Separate But Equal?
Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and Amy Richlin, editors,
Feminist Theory and the Classics
Mary Lefkowitz


Anthropology Bedeviled
Charles Stewart,
Demons and the Devil: Moral Imagination in Modern Greek Culture
Roger Just


Reading Under the Shade of Parnassus
David Ricks,
The Shade of Homer: A Study in Modern Greek Poetry
Diskin Clay


The Idea of Greece in Ancient Letters
Olga Augustinos,
French Odysseys: Greece in French Travel Literature from the Renaissance to the Romantic Era
Robert Eisner,
Travelers to an Antique Land: The History and Literature of Travel to Greece
Anthony Grafton, with April Shelford and Nancy Siraisi,
New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery
Mary Blaine Campbell

 

 

 

 

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