''Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics'' is a literary journal of ancient Greek, Roman, and Mediterranean studies and classical tradition. It is published triennially by

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodism, Methodists with its original campus in Newbury (town), Vermont, Newbur ...

. ''Arion'' seeks to publish poetry, translation, critical and literary essays, creative writing, book reviews, and visual art that captures the interest of readers both inside and outside of professional academia. The Director and Editor-in-Chief of ''Arion'', Herbert Golder, is Professor of Classics at Boston University and noted filmmaker. In 1992, he was awarded the Council of Editors of Learned Journals Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement for revitalizing the journal. The editorial board at ''Arion'' is composed of prominent poets, scholars, and intellectuals such as

Robert Alter Robert Bernard Alter (born 1935) is an American professor emeritus of Hebrew language, Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967. He has published two dozen books, including an aw ...

, Paul Barolsky, Anne Carson, Raymond Guess, Glenn W. Most,

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, Michael C.J. Putnam, and Oliver Taplin. Brandon Jones is managing editor. The non-profit journal is supported by Boston University College of Arts and Sciences, individual donors, and institutional and individual subscribers. It is electronically hosted by Project Muse; earlier issues are archived on

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. Print subscriptions are available directly from the journal.

History

''Arion'' was founded under the auspices of classicist and translator William Arrowsmith at the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public university, public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 stud ...

in 1962. Additional founding editors included D.S. Carne-Ross, J.P. Sullivan, and Frederic Will. It ran for nine volumes as a quarterly at UT until 1972 and was again revived by Arrowsmith in 1973 at Boston University, where it ran for three more volumes as a quarterly (New Series 1–3) before being discontinued. ''Arion'' was revived in 1990 under Herbert Golder, and as of 2024 has published 32 volumes as a triquarterly (Third Series 1-32).Arion third series vol. 32 no. 1 In 2004, the journal was awarded the

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's inaugural Outreach Award for bringing classics to readers outside the academy. Then president of the APA,

Elaine Fantham Elaine Fantham (born Elaine Crosthwaite, 25 May 1933 – 11 July 2016) was a British-Canadian classicist whose expertise lay particularly in Latin literature, especially comedy, epic poetry and rhetoric, and in the social history of Roman women. ...

, stated that "''Arion'' is the one journal I would most want to show friends outside of the Classics to demonstrate our exuberant variety of form and content, and its continued vitality."

References

External links

''Arion'' website
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