This digital issue of ARGO is available to download below. We hope that you enjoy reading it. This issue was printed as a double issue with volume 12 in Autumn 2020. You can subscribe to ARGO here and you can become a member of the Hellenic Society here.
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.)
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
