• Winner of the Inaugural APA Scholarly Outreach Award
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Below is the table of contents for the print version of this issue. Articles available for viewing have the author's name highlighted in blue. For access to the other content, please consider a subscription or the purchase of a back issue.


Essays and Verse

Placing Thebes and Ithaca in Eastern Europe:
Kundera, the Greeks, and I
Dana L. Munteanu
(click here to read in pdf)


Mycenae
Marcus C. De Vaca


Pygmalion’s Doll
Paul Barolsky and Eve D’Ambra


Black Antigone and Gay Oedipus:
Postcolonial Dramatic Legacies in the New South Africa
Marianne McDonald


Agamemnon:
A Poem in Several Voices
Aeschylus
(Translated by Karen Simons)


Historical Anthropology? Comparative Anthropology? Marcel Detienne
(Translated by Janet Lloyd)


Nietzsche, Freedom, and Writing Lives
Tom Stern


Greece Is This Run-Down
Erica Wright


Achilles in the Alleyway:
Bob Dylan and Classical Poetry and Myth
Thomas E. Strunk

Reviews

Two Eternal Cities on a Collision Course?
Martin Goodman, Rome and Jerusalem:
The Clash of Ancient Civilizations
Erich S. Gruen
(click here to view the pdf version)


A Homer for the Twenty-first Century
Barbara Graziosi and Emily Greenwood, eds.,
Homer in the Twentieth Century:
Between World Literature and the Western CanonStephen Scully

“These are men whose minds the Dead have ravished”
Theater of War / The Philoctetes Project,
directed by Bryan Doerries
Peter Meineck
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