ARGO, A Hellenic Review
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ARGO 20 (Autumn Winter 2024)
Letter from the Editor, Daisy Dunn
It was only when I typed the words ‘ARGO 20’ at the top of the document I used to plan this issue that I realised we have reached an important milestone. This autumn marks 10 years since ARGO was born.
I remember arriving one November morning at a Sicilian restaurant on Store Street, near the Hellenic Society office, for what was, I suppose, an interview. I had worked a few years previously for the Joint Association of Classical Teachers, also based in Senate House, and had come to understand something of the gulf between classical scholarship and the wider world. I had juggled my work for JACT with my Classics PhD and some first forays in a career in writing. My interest in the democratisation of Classics tallied with the Society’s ambition to produce a publication quite different in outlook from the existing JHS and Archaeological Reports. I was delighted to be appointed editor of something brand new. (Continue reading)
Contents
ANCIENT
BOB DORAN explains why Herodotus remains a valuable model for modern news reporters
TOLGA MARDIN visits the site of Sardis in Turkey to discover what – and how – its residents ate in antiquity
PUZZLES set by Julian Morgan (Solutions on page 26)
PAUL CARTLEDGE fondly remembers his friend and graduate supervisor at Oxford, Professor Sir John Boardman
DIANA BENTLEY offers the prospective visitor an overview of the remains of the palace complexes of Bronze Age Crete
SOCIETY
FIONA HAARER celebrates 25 years of the Hellenic Society
HELLENIC SOCIETY NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
BYZANTINE
ALEXANDER STROEM, joint winner of the Hellenic Society Undergraduate Essay Prize, reconsiders the religious shifts which occurred on Crete following the Islamic Conquest
MODERN
ANDREW STAUFFER revisits Messolonghi, where Lord Byron spent his final days, and reflects on the poet’s timeless legacy
ONUR YILDIRIM reflects on the compulsory Greek-Turkish population exchange authorized at Lausanne a century ago
MICHAEL SCHWARTZ reflects on the emergence and tragic destruction of the Jewish population of Ioannina
JOSH BEER celebrates Peter Arnott who found that big ideas are best expressed in a small arena
BEN BROADBENT introduces Jan Křesadlo’s Astronautilia – the newest epic to be written in ancient Greek
REVIEWS
A round-up of recent and forthcoming books
PAUL WATKINS reports on The Runciman Award 2024
THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE 2023
ALICE DUNN enjoys a new translation of Aesop’s Fables – but questions some of their titles
EMMA SOUTHON gets some insight into what it is like to be stuck in a confined space with a cultured Greek influencer
TARA MULDER enjoys an incomparable catalogue of ancient medical equipment, much of which is familiar still today
J. W. BONNER is reminded of his running days as he absorbs the account of a Marathon-inspired runner
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Editorial Committee
Dr Daisy Dunn (Editor), Dr Fiona Haarer, Dr Lisa Hau, Mr George Lemos, Mr Peter Lennon, Ms Lesley Fitton, Professor Gonda Van Steen, Dr Daniel Anderson, Dr Margaret Mountford, Professor Paul Cartledge.
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