ARGO, A Hellenic Review

ARGO is a bi-annual magazine published by the Society. We hope it will appeal to a broad audience of Hellenophiles, with content that is authoritative yet accessible, topical, lively and well-illustrated.

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Please select an option in the drop-down box above to buy a copy of the current issue or subscribe for 1 year/5 years. If you wish to pay by sterling cheque or bank transfer please download the ARGO subscription form. You can also subscribe to ARGO by becoming a member of the Hellenic Society. The current issue is available digitally below and we hope you enjoy reading it. You can still purchase a print copy as we hope to produce these when it becomes possible. Please see the Letter from the Editor below for more information. Issue 11 (Spring Summer 2020)

Letter from the Editor, Daisy Dunn

When we founded ARGO in 2015 we were determined that it should be an elegant, colourful, well-illustrated journal, and that it should be in print. At a time when so many publications are online only, we continue to take great pride in ARGO as a physical object to be picked up and savoured at leisure, rather than scrolled through at speed on a screen.

As you’ll have noticed, however, we are publishing this edition digitally. The spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19) has had an impact on all areas of our lives, and the publishing industry is having to adapt quickly. At the time of writing, editors are making unprecedented moves to delay the release of spring and summer titles. Ordinarily, ARGO is dispatched from Senate House in London, but with the closure of the building some weeks ago and uncertainty hanging over the status of the printers, which like all businesses are having to take things a day at a time, we made the decision to produce this issue as a PDF rather than delay its publication. Our hope is that we might print it later in the year, or as soon as this is possible, so that you may yet receive a copy for your coffee tables and bookshelves. (Click below to continue reading.)

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Contents

ANCIENT

Thomas W. Hodgkinson argues Odysseus is the author of the Odyssey

Paul Cartledge reclaims a place on the map for the forgotten city of Thebes

Emma Bentley, essay competition winner, on the Hymn to Hephaestus

Zosia Archibald introduces Macedonia and its archaeological history

LATE ANTIQUE

Violet Moller explains why Cassiodorus was such a pivotal figure in the preservation of Greek and Latin texts

MODERN

Matthew Shipton considers 19th-century mountaineers’ fascination with the classical myths

Paul Watkins explores the relics of Britain’s Greek Empire on Kythera

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 meets author Caroline Lawrence to discuss writing for children about the ancient world

REVIEWS

J.W. Bonner on Thedor Kallifatides, The Siege of Troy

Alice Dunn on Alexandros Papadiamandis, The Boundless Garden: Selected Short Stories 2

Henry Cullen on Andrea Marcolongo, The Ingenious Language: Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek

J.W. Bonner on Mary Norris, Greek To Me

We hope you enjoy reading this issue of ARGO. You can see the contents of previous issues here. If you would like to purchase back issues please contact secretary@hellenicsociety.org.uk

Editorial Committee

Professor Judith Mossman, Dr Daisy Dunn (Editor), Dr Stephen Harrison, Dr Margaret Mountford, Mr Peter Lennon, Professor Paul Cartledge, Dr Fiona Haarer, Dr Lisa Hau, Mr George Lemos, Dr Vasiliki Zali.

Contributions to ARGO should be emailed to the Editor Dr Daisy Dunn.

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