Volume 19

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Essays and Verse

Antinous’ Lips: A Note on the Slippery Matter of Realism in Portraiture
Amelia Arenas

Ovid in Rushdie, Rushdie in Ovid:
A Nexus of Artistic Webs
Ioannis Ziogas

Reading the Classics
E. T. Jeremiah

On Doing the Truth in Time:
The Aeneid’s Invention of Poetic Prophecy
William Franke

Horace through Johnson (ii): The Prodigal Heir
“A Short Song of Congratulations”: Horace, Johnson, and Satire
Kenneth J. Reckford

On the Sarcophagi
Mark Anthony Signorelli

Selected Epigrams
Sir Thomas More
(Translated by Susan McLean)

The Neuroscience of the Tragic Mask
Peter Meineck

Reviews

Spotting an Elephant
Stephen Mitchell and Peter van Nuffelen, eds. Monotheism Between Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity.
Colin Wells

“The Greatest Historian” In New English
Thucydides The Peloponnesian War, translated by Martin Hammond, notes by P. J. Rhodes.
Steven J. Willett


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Essays and Verse

Three Poems
Valerie Wohlfeld

Philip Marlowe Meets the Art Historian
Paul Barolsky

Improvisations on Salvatore Quasimodo
Martin Bennett

Who Owns Reason?
Colin Wells

The Shield and the Lyre:
Archilochian Inspirations
Michael Andrews

Rembrandt: The “I” Witness
Zhenya Gershman

Facing the Minotaur: Inception (2010) and Aeneid 6
Julia D. Hejduk

The Heritage of Jacqueline de Romilly
David Bouvier

Two Poems
Christopher Nield

Fiction

Clodia Muses
Marguerite Johnson

Reviews

Homer Who?
M. L. West, The Making of the Iliad: Disquisitions and Analytical Commentary
Norman Austin

A Thick-Skulled Rationalist
Wisława Szymborska, Here
Myles Weber

Recolenda

A Crusade for the Humanities: From the Letters of Cardinal Bessarion
(Translated by Avi Sharon)

Phoenix Award

Editor in chief Herbert Golder was awarded the 1992 Council of Editors of Learned Journals Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement for revitalizing Arion.

APA Outreach

In 2004, the American Philological Association awarded Arion and Dr. Golder its inaugural Outreach Award for bringing classics to readers outside the academy.