Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics

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Celebrating and Redefining the Classics for 20 years

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    Spring/Summer 2012, Vol. 20.1

    Inside this issue:

Essays and Verse

Three Poems
Valerie Wohlfield

Hellenismos
Norman Austin

The Dream of Scipio
Adam Kirsch

On Efficacy in Practical Reason: Comparative Approaches:
Greece-China, a Well-Timed Round-Trip
Marcel Detienne
(Translated by Meredith Peters)

Beyond the Crash
Karl Johnson

The Enlightenment Gone Mad (II)
The Dismal Discourse of Postmodernism’s
Grand Narrative
Rainer Friedrich

Satires II.8
Horace
(Translated by Allstair Elliot)

Fiction

From Mirrors are Lonely (I)
Peter Green

Reviews

Uncivil Liberties and Libertines: Empire in Decay
Elena Theodorakopoulos, Ancient Rome at the Cinema: Story and Spectacle in Hollywood and Rome
Marianne McDonald

How Not to Write the Biography of Michelangelo
Michael Hirst, Michelangelo: The Achievement of Fame, 1475-1534.
Paul Barolsky

Lestrade’s Victorians
Simon Goldhill, Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity: Art, Opera, Fiction, and the Proclamation of Modernity
Richard Jenkyns

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.