Contents Spring Summer 2017

ARGO 5 Contents Spring Summer 2017

Letter from the Editor Daisy Dunn

ANCIENT
Amy Coker on deciphering the connotations of the fruitest words and phrases from ancient Greece
Matthew Cobb explores India in the early Greek imagination
Paul Watkins reports on the astonishing recent find of a Bronze Age tomb in the Peloponnese
Stephen Harrison looks at the problems that confront historians of Alexander the Great

RECEPTION
Evelien Bracke discovers some educational uses for classical myth in modern politics
Margaret Mountford on why she was right to tell the Sunday Times that tattoos carry a 'stigma'
Alice Dunn on the pleasures and pitfalls of adapting Greek culture to clothes

MODERN
Catherine Queen describes the fascinating array of Greek dances through which she gained a window into the Hellenic soul
Paul Watkins celebrates the 100th birthday of the last survivor of 'Operation Harling'

REVIEWS
Chris Tudor on Matthew Wright, The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy 1. Neglected Authors
Jerremy Warren on Jens M. Daehner and Kenneth Lapatin (eds), Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World
Paul Cartledge on Geoffrey Parker and Brenda Parker, The Persians
Paul Cartledge on Bettany Hughes, Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities
Leonie Breeds on John Mole, The Hero of Negropont: Tales of Travellers, Turks, Greeks and a Camel

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