Arion
Journal Data
| Type | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Publisher | JSTOR |
| ISSN | 0095-5809 / 2327-6436 |
| Scopus | 16400154721 |
| OpenAlex | S52185884 |
| MAG | 52185884 |
| Website | http://www.bu.edu/arion/ |
| Total publications | 50 |
| Coverage period | 2009 - 2025 |
| Country | US |
| Language | EN |
| Indexing | Scopus indexed |
| Cited by | 21 |
| SJR | 0.1 (Q4) |
| h-index | 3 |
| i10-index | 1 |
| Female authorship share | 29.2% |
"Arion" is a journal primarily focused on classical studies, including ancient Greek and Roman literature, history, and culture. While classical scholarship can occasionally provide historical context or comparative insights for anthropologists, its core focus is not directly within social anthropology or its closely cognate fields. It falls into the broader humanities category with limited direct intersection
Classics · Linguistics and Language · Literature and Literary Theory · Academic Writing and Publishing · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies
Derek Walcott and New Classical Horizons by Justine McConnell (review)
Integers of Life: Hart Crane’s Horatian “Paraphrase
As Beautiful as Aphrodite: Beauty in the Hymn to Aphrodite and the Hippias Major
Nostos
Bacchae , The National Theatre: A Comedy, an Error
Furies, and: Second Sailing, and: If Icarus Had Lived to Testify, and: Whatever Water
Catullus 5 + 8 = Me at 25
From the Latin , Selected Poems
Oedipus Prays ( Thebaid 1.46–101)
Requiem: For the Innocents
A Complex Dramaturgy: Imitation and Contamination of the Classics in the Comedies of Ben Jonson by Tom Harrison (review)
Thick Reception: The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse ed. by Christopher Childers (review)
(In)glorious Receptions: Amazing Antiquity: Ancient Greece and Rome in Modern Science Fiction by Ross Clare (review)
The Brush-Off: After Horace
In the Darkness of the Horse
Euripides’ Alcestis , Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale , and Ironic Reading
From Days of Crisis
Two Poems
Speaking Well, Acting Well
Ajax's Lament
After Theognis
You'll Find Me in the Woods
Five Poems
Sapphic Slices
Penelope's Nostos: Weaving Wor[l]ds
The Neuroscience of the Tragic Mask
The Neuroscience of the Tragic Mask PETER MEINECK Manisleasthimself when hetalks inhisownperson. Givehima mask, andhewilltellyouthetruth. - OscarWilde, TheCritic as Artist TA he image ofthetragicmaskwithitsfixedexpression ,emptyeye sockets,monochromatic complexion, and exaggerateddownturned mouthsitsnextto its comic counterpart as theveryemblemof livetheatre, as theintertwinedmasksof "Comedy" and "Tragedy."However,inthe theatre worldmasksare one …
Thucydides Quote Unquote
Leaving Athens: Classics for a New Century
Xage duBois' new collection of essays raises question of what classics as a discipline might become in twenty-first century (if, that is, it is to remain a separate dis cipline and not simply allow its objects of study to be ab sorbed into other disciplines, for example, comparative literature).* One way of putting her answer would be to say that classicists should desert for multi-ethnic, hybrid Alexandria, which represents, in words of Daniel S…
Missing Stones Speak: The New Acropolis Museum and the Mysterious Case of Vanished Athenian Imperialism
Missing Stones Speak: The New Acropolis Museum and the Mysterious Case ofVanished Athenian Imperialism BRONWEN L.WICKKISER I visited the new Acropolis Museum for the first time in January 2010, just after returning to Athens to spend part of a sabbatical inGreece. Iwas not disappointed: themuseum is an exciting and dynamic space. The soaring ceilings, rooms flooded with sunlight, and thewide, central stairways and escalators suggest the experienc…
Hadrian, Hellenism, and the Social History of Art
Hadrian, Hellenism, and the Social History ofArt CAROLINE VOUT i. all greek to me A XIlS a classicist, my point of departure in this essay inArt History is the Roman Empire and the cultural production of the second century ce, the "Second Sophis tic." After centuries of being used and abused by the con quering Romans, Greek culture undergoes a Renaissance in this period?so much so that elites up and down the Empire advertise and bolster their pre…
By Means of Performance: Western Greek Mythological Vase-Paintings, Tragic "Enrichment," and the Early Reception of Fifth-century Athenian Tragedy
ISMENE LADA-RICHARDS, "By Means of Performance": Western Greek Mythological Vase-Paintings, Tragic "Enrichment," and the Early Reception of Fifth-century Athenian Tragedy, Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics, Third Series, Vol. 17, No. 2 (FALL 2009), pp. 99-166
Missing Stones Speak: The New Acropolis Museum and the Mysterious Case of Vanished Athenian Imperialism
Missing Stones Speak: The New Acropolis Museum and the Mysterious Case ofVanished Athenian Imperialism BRONWEN L.WICKKISER I visited the new Acropolis Museum for the first time in January 2010, just after returning to Athens to spend part of a sabbatical inGreece. Iwas not disappointed: themuseum is an exciting and dynamic space. The soaring ceilings, rooms flooded with sunlight, and thewide, central stairways and escalators suggest the experienc…
Most musical of mourners, weep again: Titian's Triumph of Marsyas
Mostmusical ofmourners, weepagain!": Titian's Triumph ofMarsyas DAVID ROSAND T Xhe tragic fateof thepresumptuous satyr Marsyas isrecounted briefly inbook6 ofOvid'sMetamorphoses (lines382-400).Thatbookopenswiththeboastof thetalented weaver Arachne, herchallenge toPallasAthena, and - despite theglorious gallery ofherwovenpictures, a pictorial paradeofthelovesofJupiter - thepunishment for suchhubris: themortal girl's transformation intoa spider, a f…
Leaving Athens: Classics for a New Century
Xage duBois' new collection of essays raises question of what classics as a discipline might become in twenty-first century (if, that is, it is to remain a separate dis cipline and not simply allow its objects of study to be ab sorbed into other disciplines, for example, comparative literature).* One way of putting her answer would be to say that classicists should desert for multi-ethnic, hybrid Alexandria, which represents, in words of Daniel S…
Hadrian, Hellenism, and the Social History of Art
Hadrian, Hellenism, and the Social History ofArt CAROLINE VOUT i. all greek to me A XIlS a classicist, my point of departure in this essay inArt History is the Roman Empire and the cultural production of the second century ce, the "Second Sophis tic." After centuries of being used and abused by the con quering Romans, Greek culture undergoes a Renaissance in this period?so much so that elites up and down the Empire advertise and bolster their pre…
The Neuroscience of the Tragic Mask
The Neuroscience of the Tragic Mask PETER MEINECK Manisleasthimself when hetalks inhisownperson. Givehima mask, andhewilltellyouthetruth. - OscarWilde, TheCritic as Artist TA he image ofthetragicmaskwithitsfixedexpression ,emptyeye sockets,monochromatic complexion, and exaggerateddownturned mouthsitsnextto its comic counterpart as theveryemblemof livetheatre, as theintertwinedmasksof "Comedy" and "Tragedy."However,inthe theatre worldmasksare one …
Herodotus and the Vulnerability Ethic in Ancient Greece
Herodotus and the Vulnerability Ethic in Ancient Greece PETER AICHER Herodotus was a narrative pioneer, and his literary trek begins with the story of Croesus. More legend than history, the Croesus Logos, as it’s sometimes called in the literature, draws the reader in with its concentrated drama of family ambition, riddling oracles, prophetic irony, and the fated tumble of its hero. The aim of my essay is to explore some important dimensions of t…
Herodotus and the Vulnerability Ethic in Ancient Greece
Herodotus was a narrative pioneer, and his literary trek begins with the story of Croesus. More legend than history, the Croesus Logos, as it’s sometimes called in the literature, draws the reader in with its concentrated drama of family ambition, riddling oracles, prophetic irony, and the fated tumble of its hero. The aim of my essay is to explore some important dimensions of this story that have been overlooked in Herodotean scholarship and in …
Translating Thucydides
Thucydides Quote Unquote
Epic Annoyance, Homer to Palladas
Cave Myths and the Metaphorics of Light: Plato, Aristotle, Lucretius
Return to the Land of the Sun: In Homage to Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914-2007)
Return to the Land of the Sun: in Homage to Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914-2007) FROMA I. ZEITLIN proem This piece was was originally commissioned for an issue of the literary revue, Europe (N° 964-965, 2009) devoted to the scholarly career of the renowned French Hellenist, Jean-Pierre Vernant. Member of the Collège de France, and founder of the so-called "École de Paris" whose work from the 1960s on transformed our approaches to the literature, socie…
Return to the Land of the Sun: In Homage to Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914-2007)
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Unmasking the Maxim: An Ancient Genre And Why It Matters Now
Philosophy Illustrated
Philosophy Illustrated David Carrier (bio) Words are the medium of philosophy, and images the basis for visual artworks. But sometimes it happens that philosophical theorizing can be illustrated in images. And then the cross-over between these two normally distinct forms of representations raises fascinating issues. Thoughtful Images: Illustrating Philosophy through Art, the first book to study these illustrations of philosophy systematically, st…
The Renaissance of Cremutius Cordus
Winged Words at Wittenberg
To Spring, or Concerning the Ancient Fables
Odysseus in the Renaissance
"The Double Duplicity of Bronzino's London "Allegory
Three Poems
Les Antiquités de Rome III & VII: After Joachim du Bellay
Scilicet et non est lignis tamen insitus ignis: After Lucretius De Rerum Natura 1.897–914
A Ridiculous Painting by Paolo Veronese