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Daedalus 145: 2 (Spring 2016) - What's New About the Old

Matthew S. Santirocco, Brooke Holmes, Shadi Bartsch

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Dædalus was founded in 1955 as the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. It draws on the enormous intellectual capacity of the American Academy, whose members are among the nation's most prominent thinkers in the arts, sciences, and humanities.

Introduction: Reassessing Greece & Rome
Matthew S. Santirocco

Tragedy in the Crosshairs of the Present
Brooke Holmes

Roman Literature: Translation, Metaphor & Empire
Shadi Bartsch

Reception Studies: The Cultural Mobility of Classics
Emily Greenwood

On Translating Homer’s Iliad
Caroline Alexander

Philosophy & Its Classical Past
Phillip Mitsis

The Matter of Classical Art History
Verity Platt

Materializing Ancient Documents
Roger S. Bagnall

Memory, Commemoration & Identity in an Ancient City
Angelos Chaniotis

The Environmental Fall of the Roman Empire
Kyle Harper

What is Ancient History?
Ian Morris & Walter Scheidel

Classics: Curriculum & Profession
Peter T. Struck

Greco-Roman Studies in a Digital Age
Gregory Crane

The New “Brothers Poem” by Sappho
Rachel Hadas

Explicating Catullus
Michael C. J. Putnam

The Scientific Study of Antiquity
Malcolm H. Wiener

202 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 9, 2016