RION
A Journal of Humani ties and the Classics
at Boston University
Winner of the CEL} Phoenix Award
for Significant Editorial Achievement
"The new
Arion
is, like the old one, above all, interesting and fun."
- Don Fowler,
Times Literary Supplement
And like the old one, the new
Arion
is dedicated to work
that reveals the enduring vitality of the classics,
to
imaginative
criticism that reaches across disciplinary lines and beyond the
academy.
The current issue spotlights Latin literature and its
modern legacy with essays by Kenneth Reckford, Michael
Putnam, Charles Martindale, and Richard Jenkyns
Reviews include Daniel Mendelsohn on John Boswell's
Same
Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
and Lowell Edmunds on
computers and the classics.
The poetry section features a new play by Tony
Harrison and original poems and new translations by David
Ferry, Rosanna Warren, Alistair Elliot, William Logan, Mark
Rudman, Deborah Roberts, and Thomas Palaima.
Robert Alter
D. S. Carne-Ross
Anne Carson
Diskin Clay
John Herington
Herbert Golder,
Editor in Chief
EDITORIAL B OARD
Frank Kermode
B. M. W. Knox
Alasdair Macintyre
Glenn W. Most
Alexander Nehamas
Martha
C.
Nussbaum
David Rosand
Stanley Rosen
Vincent Scully
Oliver Taplin
Subscriptions are $19 individual, $35 institutiona l, for three issues.
Make check payable to
Arion
and mail it with your order to:
Office of Scholarly Publications 985 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
02215. Add $3 for overseas.
