Robert
Alter
D.S. Carne-Ross
Anne Carson
Marianne McDonald
Peter Green
Frank Kermode
B.M.W. Knox
Alasdair MacIntyre
Glenn W. Most
Alexander Nehamas
Martha Nussbaum
Camille Paglia
David Rosand
Stanley Rosen
Oliver Taplin
MANAGING EDITOR Nicholas Poburko
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Andrew Shapira
STUDENT ASSISTANTS Elizabeth Harris
Michele Milano
"MORE THAN humane philology is
essential for keeping the classics as a living force. Arion therefore
exists to publish work that needs to be done and that otherwise might not get
done. We want to stimulate, provoke, even "plant" work that now finds no
encouragement or congenial home elsewhere. This means swimming against the
mainstream, resisting the extremes of conventional philology and critical
fashion into which the profession is now polarized. But occupying this vital
center should in no way preclude the crucial centrifugal movement that may lead
us across disciplinary lines and beyond the academy. Our commitment is to a
genuine and generous pluralism that opens up rather than polarizes classical
studies. We will not be coerced into conforming either to the traditional
paradigms or to the "new" metaphysic and ideological absolutism of contemporary
theory. If we are to move beyond the cant of "isms" now dominating the academy,
intellectual daring is needed, not disciplinary diffidence.
"We are in quest of freshness of vision, distinction of thought (as
opposed to professional group-think), rigor of imagination, and an energetic
sense of the spaciousness of the classical tradition."
