Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics at Boston University
Inside Arion 29.1 Spring/Summer 2021
Sculpture: Only Connect, by Lincoln Perry
“Kore in April,” a poem by J. M. Jordan
Steven F. Ostrow on Bernini’s Capitoline Medusa and the poetics of sculpture
“Rendezvous,” a poem by Jane Blanchard
Richard D. Benson examines humorously ironic Homeric epithets
Avi Sharon translates “Ballad” by Michalis Ganas
The End of Epic: Camilla and the Revenge of Dido, by Elizabeth Powers
Giacomo Leopardi’s “La Sera del dì di Festa,” translated by Steven J. Willett
On Reflection: Where Light Comes to Light, Herbert Golder discusses print in the digital age
Horace, Ode 1.11, translated by Patrick Whalen
Helaine Smith reviews Stephanie Burt’s After Callimachus: Poems
Inside Arion 28.3 Winter 2021
In celebration of the Keats Bicentennial, Roger L. Michel, Jr. presents two poems—
Scarlett Sabet’s “23rd February 1821: In Remembrance of John Keats”
and
Simon Armitage’s “I Speak As Someone . . .”
W. Robert Connor unmasks the maxim, an ancient genre, and shows why it matters now
“Spring Fishing Song, Prehistoric Paros,” a poem by John Eric Hamel
Luke Soucy translates the creation accounts in Metamorphoses: i.5–162, 274–415
Six Poems by George Kalogeris
Stephen Orgel discusses the Elizabethan Bacchae
Three Odes of Horace translated by Charles Martin
Three essays on Freud, Achaeology and Egypt:
Simon Goldhill on religion, materiality and the cultural critique of origins
Freud and Leonardo in Egypt explored by Daniel Orrells
Miriam Leonard ponders Freud between Oedipus and the Sphinx
Paul Barolsky reviews Sefy Hendler’s study of Bronzino’s Nano Morgante
Inside Arion 28.2: Fall 2020
Inside this Issue:
Erictho and Demogorgon: David Quint on poetry against metaphysics
What Virgil should have said, by Kyle Gervais
Limb-loosening: George Saad traces a motif in Vergil
Lawrence Dugan remembers Hurricane Gloria
Three poems by Ricardo Pau-Llosa
Steven Shankman on Xenophilia
Allen Tice translates “Very Late, in Spring”
Propertius’s Elegia I.3 translated by Steven J. Willett
Reflections on Raphael by Paul Barolsky
From the Front: Avi Sharon translates poems by Nicolas Aliferis
Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. reviews Kathryn A. Kozaitis’s Indebted: An Ethnography of Despair and Resilience in Greece’s Second City
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