ARGO 4 Contents Autumn Winter 2016
Letter from the Editor Daisy Dunn
ANCIENT
James Robson asks whether Kenneth Dover’s Greek Homosexuality can penetrate our fluid sexual society today
Carol Atack asks whether the democracies of classical Athens offer any solutions to today’s political problems
Ilyas Mardin enjoys a week with the Sardis Expedition in western Turkey
RECEPTION
Arlene Holmes-Henderson looks at the diverse range of initiatives being used to help Classical Greek flourish in schools
Marco Benoît Carbone on how Greek myths and history continue to fuel
the tourist industry
Harry Mount describes Odysseus’ journey round the Mediterranean – in a cruise ship
John Ellis Jones pays tribute to his friend and former colleague Joan Haldane
MODERN
Joshua Barley travels from Athens to the border of Albania in search of the haunting song of Epirus
Giles Milton on an Anglo- Greek sabotage mission that altered the course of the Second World War
Nikos Nikolopoulos on shooting his award-winning feature film Polk
Victoria Hislop on why her new novel, Cartes Postales from Greece, is a love letter to Greece
REVIEWS
Paul Watkins on Sharon Gerstel winning the 2016 Runciman Award
Elizabeth Jeffreys on Sharon Gerstel, Rural Lives and Landscapes in Late Byzantium
Paul Cartledge on Martha L. Carter, Arts of the Hellenized East
Richard Stoneman on Marie-Claire Beaulieu, The Sea in the Greek Imagination
Alice Dunn on HRH Princess Tatiana and Diana Farr Louis, A Taste of Greece