{"id":27,"date":"2009-06-25T11:05:39","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T15:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/arion\/about-arion\/"},"modified":"2024-10-09T16:47:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T20:47:41","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/arion\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Arion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arion<\/em> is one of the most distinguished classics journals and is undoubtedly the most original. It has been published by Boston University since 1990.<\/p>\n

\"cover<\/a>The accessibility of Arion<\/em> to non-specialist readers deeply interested in the core values of Western culture is one of Arion<\/em>‘s primary aims. Elaine Fantham, president of the American Philological Association, announcing Arion<\/em> as the winner of the inaugural APA Outreach Award, captured what\u2019s so special about us: \u201cArion <\/em>is the one journal I would most want to show friends outside the Classics to demonstrate our exuberant variety of form and content, and its continued vitality.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the same time, Arion<\/em> is available in most of the world\u2019s best libraries because we demand the highest standards of scholarship from our contributors, whether these are prominent or promising scholars. Some of the best works in classics have had their start in Arion.<\/em><\/p>\n

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“More than humane philology is essential \u00a0for keeping the classics as a living \u00a0force.\u00a0Arion<\/em> therefore exists to publish \u00a0work that needs to be done and that \u00a0otherwise might not get done. We want to \u00a0stimulate, provoke, even “plant” work that \u00a0now finds no encouragement or congenial \u00a0home elsewhere. This means swimming \u00a0against the mainstream, resisting the \u00a0extremes of conventional philology and \u00a0critical fashion into which the profession \u00a0is now polarized. But occupying this vital \u00a0center should in no way preclude the \u00a0crucial centrifugal movement that may \u00a0lead us across disciplinary lines and \u00a0beyond 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.\u00a0We are in a quest of freshness of vision, a distinction of thought (as opposed to professional group-think), rigor of imagination, and an energetic sense of the spaciousness of the classical tradition.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u2013 Herbert Golder, Editorial Statement, Winter 1990<\/p>\n

\"Arion_16.3Cover\"<\/p>\n

EDITOR IN CHIEF<\/h4>\n

Herbert Golder<\/p>\n

EDITORIAL BOARD<\/b><\/p>\n

Robert Alter
\nPaul Barolsky
\nAnne Carson
\nRaymond Geuss
\nMarianne McDonald
\nGlenn W. Most
\nAlexander Nehamas
\nMartha Nussbaum
\nCamille Paglia
\nMichael C. J. Putnam
\nOliver Taplin
\nJames Tatum<\/p>\n

MANAGING EDITOR<\/b><\/p>\n

Brandon Jones<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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