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A Journal of Humanities and the Classics                                                                                                                   

Vol. 8.1   
 
 
 
 
 

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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, Translations, and Verse


Virtue and the Good Life
Raymond Geuss

Dionysos
Francis Blessington

Education, Phusis, and Freedom in Sophocles' Philoctetes
John Carlevale

Two Poems
Susan McLean

The Face of the Elite
Barbara E. Borg (translated by Glenn W. Most)

Politics as Literature: Demosthenes and the Burden of the Athenian Past
Harvey Yunis



 

Reviews

Catching Xerxes' Tears in English: The Styles of Herodotean Translation
The Histories,translated by Robin Waterfield
Steven J. Willett

The Light and the Dark: Two Translations of the Poetics
Aristotle: Poetics, translated and with a commentary by George Whalley
Stephen Halliwell

Slag in the Crucible
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization.
A PBS Empires Special.
Companion volume: Paul Cartledge,
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
Peter Green






 

 

 

 

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