Letter from the Editor, Daisy Dunn
Back in Spring, when we were on the verge of sending ARGO 11 to press, everything started to close. It quickly became apparent that we would have no means of distributing the magazine even if we were lucky enough to get it back from the printers in time. We therefore took the decision to produce the issue as a digital file and make it available to everyone to download and enjoy in the dark days of lockdown. I am pleased to report that this has brought a number of new readers to our pages.
Happily, nonetheless, Senate House has since reopened, enabling us to dispatch hard copies of your favourite Greek bi-annual. And what an issue this is. You’ll have noticed it’s twice as thick as normal. Some of the pages will also look familiar. Welcome to the first ever double edition of ARGO. Interleafed with brand new articles and reviews are the full contents of issue 11 so you can enjoy them in print. (Continue reading)
Contents
INTRODUCING
Daisy Dunn meets Paul Cartledge, the new President of the Hellenic Society
ANCIENT
Paul Cartledge reclaims a place on the map for the forgotten city of Thebes
Thomas W. Hodgkinson argues Odysseus is the author of the Odyssey
Greg Woolf compares the cities of the Iliad and the Odyssey with those of the real world of Homer
Emma Bentley, essay competition winner, on the Hymn to Hephaestus
Jane Draycott explores what ‘prosthesis’ meant for the ancient Greeks
Genevieve Liveley finds forerunners of today’s autonomous vehicles in the Homeric epics
Robert Tatam on the oracle of Trophonios near Delphi
John Davie on Greek theatre and the lives of its first actors
Zosia Archibald introduces Macedonia and its archaeological history
LATE ANTIQUE
John Mole explores 14th century Athens with Nicola Martoni
Violet Moller explains why Cassiodorus was such a pivotal figure in the preservation of Greek and Latin texts
MODERN
Harry Mount on Troy: the video game
Diana Bentley visits a Greek villa on the French Riviera
Paul Watkins explores the relics of Britain’s Greek Empire on Kythera
Matthew Shipton considers 19th-century mountaineers’ fascination with the classical myths
Alexander Kennedy-Pipe presents poems arising out of the Iliad
Caroline Mackenzie meets author Caroline Lawrence to discuss writing for children about the ancient world
David Ricks revisits the Brousos of Alexander Pallis, an unparalleled travel book
Don Short on reporting from Greece in the heyday of British journalism
Caroline Mackenzie talks to David Raeburn, translator and director of Greek plays
REVIEWS
Elena De Mello Martin offers a round-up of recent and forthcoming books
John Kittmer on Edith Hall and Henry Stead, A People’s History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939
Henry Cullen on Andrea Marcolongo, The Ingenious Language: Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek
J.W. Bonner on Theodor Kallifatides, The Siege of Troy
J.W. Bonner on Anne Carson, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
Alice Dunn on Alexandros Papadiamandis, The Boundless Garden: Selected Short Stories 2
Leonie Breeds on Philip Womack, The Arrow of Apollo
J.W. Bonner on Mary Norris, Greek To Me
Alice Dunn on Polly Samson, A Theatre for Dreamers
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