Arion                                      

 

A Journal of Humanities and the Classics                                                                                                                   

Vol. 4.3   
 
 
 
 
 
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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

This Is Where I Intend To Build A Glorious Temple
Marcel Detienne

Misconceptions about African Blacks in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Specialists and Afrocentrists
Frank Snowden

Herculean Muscle!: The Classicizing Rhetoric of Bodybuilding
Maria Wyke

The Play of Desire: Casting Euripides' Hippolytus
Mary Beard and John Henderson


Translation and Verse

Book of Job (Chapters 3, 9, 10, 29, 30)
translated by Raymond Scheindlin

Renderings
Carl Phillips

Jason in Lemnos (Argonautica I.774Ü887)
translated by Peter Green

The Cockrel Weathervane Swerves
As Diotima Saw Socrates

Amelie Oksenberg Rorty

 

 


Reviews

A Stoic's Confessions
Kenneth Dover,
Marginal Comment: A Memoir
Martha Nussbaum


The Ins and Outs of the Greek Mind
Ruth Padel,
In and Out of the Mind
J.-P. Vernant


Color-Blinded
Mary Lefkowitz,
Not Out of Africa
Glenn Loury


Nubia in Boston
Permanent Collection of Nubian Artifacts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Emily Vermeule

What Lyric?
Barbara Hughs Fowler,
Archaic Greek Poetry: An Anthology
Diane J. Rayor,
Sappho's Lyre: Archaic Lyric and Women Poets of Ancient Greece
Rachel Hadas


Euripides: Conformist, Deviant, Neoconservative?
Justina Gregory,
Euripides and the Instruction of the Athenians
Charles Segal,
Euripides and the Poetics of Sorrow: Art, Gender, and Commemoration in Alcestis, Hippolytus, and Hecuba
Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz,
Anxiety Veiled: Euripides' Traffic in Women
Ann Michelini


A Distant Music
M. L. West,
Ancient Greek Music
Otto Steinmayer


 

 

 

 

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