Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics
Celebrating and Redefining the Classics for 20 years
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