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A Journal of Humanities and the Classics                                                                                                                   

Vol. 7.2   
 
 
 
 
 

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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, Translations, and Verse

  

Ancient Greek "Literature" and Near Eastern "Writing": The Opposition and Encounter of Two Creative Principles

Part Two: The Encounter
Sergei Averintsev
(translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)

The Art of Poetry: Notes for Aspiring Poets and Playwrights
Horace (translated by David Ferry)

Context
Gary Webster

Public or Private? An Artemesian Answer
Norma Thompson

The Sicilian Expedition: The Fate of the Athenians Debated
Diodorus Siculus (translated by Peter Green)

Poems and Adaptations
Raymond Geuss

Two Greek Epigrams
D.S. Carne-Ross

Looking at Venus: A Brief History of Erotic Art
Paul Barolsky

 



 

Reviews

Thucydides Domesticated and "Foreignized"
Walter Blanco, trans.,
The Peloponnesian War
Steven Lattimore, trans.,
The Peloponnesian War
Steven J. Willett

Highminded Vulgarization
Sarah B. Pomeroy, Stanley M. Burnstein, Walter Donlan, and Jennifer Tolbert Roberts,
Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History
Paul Cartledge

Replaying the Other
Froma Zeitlin,
Playing the Other: Gender and Society in Classical Greek Literature
Ann N. Michelini






 

 

 

 

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