Vol. 4

Arion 4.1 Spring/Summer 1996cover 4.1

Herbert Golder: The Tragic Chorus and Staging
Charles Segal: The Chorus and the Gods in Oedipus Tyrranus
William C. Scott: Musical Design in Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrranus
Rush Rehm: Performing the Chorus: Choral Action, Interaction, and Absence in Euripides
Stephen Scully: Orchestra and Stage in Euripides’ Suppliant Women
Stephen Esposito: The Changing Roles of the Sophoclean Chorus
Tony Harrison: The Labourers of Herakles
B. M. W. Knox reviews: Inszenierung der Antike. Das griechische Drama aur der Bühne der Neuzeit by Hellmut Flashar and Ancient Sun, Modern Light by Marianne McDonald
Herbert Golder reviews: Les Atrides at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Oedipus Trilogy, Royal Shakespeare Company, at the Barbican Theater, London, and Medea, at the Almeida Theatre, London / Lonacre Theater, New York
Oliver Taplin reviews: Les Atrides, directed by Ariane Mnouchkine, Théâtre du Soleil, Vincennes
Ruth Padel reviews: Ion, the Lost Boy, co-production of Actors Touring Company, London and Piramatiki Skini tis Technis, Thessaloniki and Ion, Royal Shakespeare Company at the Barbican Theatre, London
Robert Sonkowsky reviews: Clytemnestra at the Guthrie Theatre

Arion 4.2 Fall 1996cover 4.2

Anne Carson: Writing on the World: Simonides, Exactitude, and Paul Celan
Adele Haft: Baby Hermes and Animal Theft in Contemporary Crete
Leslie Kurke: Pindar and the Prostitutes, or Reading Ancient “Pornography”
Ruth Padel: Labyrinth of Desire: Cretan Myth in Us
Peter Green: Myth, Tradition, and Ideology in the Greek Literary Revival: The Paradoxical Case of Yannis Ritsos
Diskin Clay translates George Seferis: On the Yellow Thistles
Avi Sharon translates George Seferis and Yannis Ritsos: The King of Asine and Romiosini
Alan Farrell: Cortez in Darien
Martin Bernal reviews: The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age by Walter Burkert
Charles Tomlinson reviews: The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation, edited by Adrian Poole and Jeremy Maule
Simon Goldhill reviews: Sophocles’ Oedipus: Evidence and Self-Conviction by Frederic Ahl, Oedipus and the Fabrication of the Father: Oedipus Tyrannus in Modern Criticism and Philosophy by Pietro Pucci, and Oedipus Tyrannus: Tragic Heroism and the Limits of Knowledge by Charles Segal
Mary Lefkowitz reviews: Feminist Theory and the Classics, edited by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and Amy Richlin
Roger Just reviews: Demons and the Devil: Moral Imagination in Modern Greek Culture by Charles Stewart
Diskin Clay reviews: The Shade of Homer: A Study in Modern Greek Poetry by David Ricks
Mary Blaine Campbell reviews: French Odysseys: Greece in French Travel Literature from the Renaissance to the Romantic Era by Olga Augustinos, Travelers to an Antique Land: The History and Literature of Travel to Greece by Robert Eisner, and New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery by Anthony Grafton, with April Shelford and Nancy Siraisi

Arion 4.3 Winter 1997cover4.3

Marcel Detienne: This Is Where I Intend To Build A Glorious Temple
Frank Snowden: Misconceptions about African Blacks in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Specialists and Afrocentrists
Maria Wyke: Herculean Muscle!: The Classicizing Rhetoric of Bodybuilding
Mary Beard and John Henderson: The Play of Desire: Casting Euripides’ Hippolytus
Raymond Scheindlin translates: Book of Job (Chapters 3, 9, 10, 29, 30)
Carl Phillips: Renderings
Peter Green translates Apollonius of Rhodes: Jason in Lemnos (Argonautica I.774-887)
Amelie Oksenberg Rorty: The Cockrel Weathervane Swerves and As Diotima Saw Socrates
Martha Nussbaum reviews: Marginal Comment: A Memoir by Kenneth Dover
J.-P. Vernant reviews: In and Out of the Mind by Ruth Padel
Glenn Loury reviews: Not out of Africa by Mary Lefkowitz
Emily Vermeule reviews: Permanent Collection of Nubian Artifacts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Rachel Hadas reviews: Archaic Greek Poetry: An Anthology by Barbara Hughs Fowler and Sappho’s Lyre: Archaic Lyric and Women Poets of Ancient Greece by Diane J. Rayor
Ann Michelini reviews: Euripides and the Instruction of the Athenians byJustina Gregory, Euripides and the Poetics of Sorrow: Art, Gender, and Commemoration in Alcestis, Hippolytus, and Hecuba by Charles Segal, and Anxiety Veiled: Euripides’ Traffic in Women by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
Otto Steinmayer reviews: Ancient Greek Music by M.L. West