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A Journal of Humanities and the Classics                                                                                                                   

Vol. 9.1
 
 
 
 
 

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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 and Verse

Popcorn and Circus: Gladiator and the Spectacle of Virtue
Amelia Arenas


Genre as Abstraction and Genres as Reality: The Dialectics of Closure and Openness
Sergei Averintsev (Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)


Intermissa Venus (Ode 4.1)
Horace (Translated by Jacob Louis Mackey)

The Art of Founding Autochthony: Thebes, Athens, and Old-Stock French
Marcel Detienne (Translated by Elizabeth Jones)

Hypotenuses
Ann Taylor

Don Quixote Responds to the Windmill: A Riposte to Richard Seaford on the New Ritualism
Rainer Friedrich

Ikaria
Peter Green

Jupiter in Ovid's Metamorphoses
Charles Segal

Two Odes
Horace (Translated by Rosanna Warren)


Reviews

Was Homer A Poet? Paolo Vivante, Homeric Rhythm: A Philosophical Study.
Norman Austin


Experiencing Virgil. Richard Jenkyns, Virgil's Experience: Nature and History, Times, Names, and Places.
Karl Galinsky



 

 

 

 

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