Tables of Contents for
Individual Issues of Amphora

(Links are to pdf files of the issues)

Issue 1.1

Father M. Owen Lee, "Unanswered Questions"
Margaret A. Brucia and Anne-Marie Lewis, Editors, "What's in a Name? What's in an Amphora?"
Mark L. Lawall, "The Amphora and Ancient Commerce"
Nancy Felson, "Teaching and Reading Classics after 9/11"
Stephen G. Daitz, "Let the Music Be Heard: The Case for the Oral Performance of Greek and Latin Literature"
Martin Helzle, "Building on Sand? Literary Interpretation and Textual Criticism"Book Review:
Martin M. Winkler, ed., Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema; and Jon Solomon, The Ancient World in the Cinema (Kerill O'Neill)Film Review:
Ulysses (1954) (Hanna M. Roisman)Web Site Review:
The DIR (Michael DiMaio)Poetry:
Lois V. Hinckley "Elpenor's Last Exit"

Issue 1.2

C. W. Marshall, "Remembering Rhesus"
Margaret A. Brucia and Anne-Marie Lewis, "From the Editors"
Victor Davis Hanson, "Viticulture and Classical Idealism"
Ward W. Briggs, Jr., "One Writer's Classics: John Updike's Harvard"
Donald G. Kyle, "Why Greek Sport History?"
Susan McLean, "On Translating the Poetry of Catullus"Book Reviews:
John Maddox Roberts, SPQR II: The Catiline Conspiracy (Martha Malamud)
Steven W. Saylor, Catilina's Riddle (John T. Ramsey)Film Review:
Cleopatra (1963) (Martin W. Winkler)

 

Notable Web Site:
Leo C. Curran, "Maecenas: Images of Ancient Greece and Rome"Poetry:
Lois V. Hinckley, "Watching Medusa"

Issue 2.1

Janice M. Benario, "Horace, Humanitas, and Crete"
Margaret A. Brucia, "Editorial"
Thomas Falkner, "Novel Approaches to the Classics: Part I"
Barbara Tsakirgis, "The Nashville Athena: Rebirth of a Goddess"
Kenneth J. Reckford, "'There and Back Again' &endash; Odysseus and Bilbo Baggins"
Randall Nichols, "On Good Teaching"
Ourania Molyviati, "Mount Olympus"

 

Book Reviews:J. S. Morrison, J. F. Coates, N. B. Rankov, The Athenian Trireme: The History and Reconstruction of an Ancient Greek Warship (Lionel Casson)
Tracy Lee Simmons, Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin (Aaron W. Godfrey)
Margaret Reynolds,The Sappho Companion (Diane J. Rayor)
Jane Alison, The Love-Artist (Mary C. English)Film Review:
Clash of the Titans (1981) (Robert J. Lenardon)

Issue 2.2

Marie Cleary, "Myths for Millions"
Mary-Kay Gamel, "The Palace of Fine Arts: Classical Architecture in San Francisco"
Keith G. Hart, B. V. Sc., "On Hannibal and Elephants"
Jonathan Shay, "Agamemnon, Achilles, Odysseus: Homer on Military Leadership"
Lois V. Hinckley, "Myth in the Mirror: Journeying with Aeneas"
Patrice D. Rankine, "Ralph Ellison, Ulysses, and Invisible Man"
Elizabeth Lyding Will, "From Italy to India: Mediterranean Amphoras and Roman Economic History"
Andrew Earle Simpson, "An Operatic Agamemnon Premieres in Washington, D. C."

 

Book Reviews:
Tony Perrottet, Route 66 A.D.: On the Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists (Norma Wynick Goldman)
Oliver Taplin, ed., Literature in the Greek World (John C. Warman)
Oliver Taplin, ed., Literature in the Roman World (Viola Stephens)Film Review:
Barabbas (1962) (Ruth Scodel)Notable Web Site:
Janice Siegel, "Dr. J's Illustrated Guide to the Classical World"Poetry:
Mark Possanza, "A Note on the Transmission of Catullus"

Issue 3.1

Margaret Malamud, "Patriarchy and Pietas in the Star Wars Trilogy"
John Scarborough, "Drugs for an Emperor"
Classical Buzz: David W. Frauenfelder, "Tween Good and Evil: Greece, Rome, and Harry Potter"
Thomas Falkner, "Novel Approaches to the Classics: Part II"
Waldemar Heckel, "What's New in Alexander Studies"
Emily Matters, "I Clodia &endash; A Play for Latin Lovers"Book Reviews:
Anthony A. Barrett, Livia: First Lady of Imperial Rome (Elaine Fantham)
Michael B. Edwards, Murder at the Panionic Games (Mary C. English)
Anthony Everitt, Cicero (Jane W. Crawford)
Annamaria Ciarallo, Gardens of Pompeii (John Van Sickle)Film Review:
Gladiator (2000) (Martin W. Winkler)Video Review:
The Storyteller: Greek Myths (1991, 1999) (Betty Rose Nagle)

 

Notable Web Site:
Carlos Parada, Greek Mythology Link  

Issue 3.2

Elizabeth Scharffenberger, "'The Time is the Present, The Place is Ancient Greece': The (Very) Contemporary Comedy of Aristophanes"
Charles Rowan Beye, "Boston's Quincy Market: Classical Style and Puritan Instinct"
James J. O'Donnell, "The Library of Alexandria Reborn"
Classical Buzz: David Frauenfelder, "Gladiatorial Games: Ancient Reality Shows"
William M. Murray, "Birthplace of Empire: The Legacy of Actium"
David H. Porter, "Natty Bumppo Quotes Horace"
Jeanne Reames-Zimmerman, "A History of Alexander on the Big Screen"
Matthew Dillon, "Ancient Languages in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ"
Andrew Earle Simpson, "The Oresteia Project Continues"
Mary-Kay Gamel, "Troy Panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association in Boston"

Book Reviews:
Antony Kamm, Julius Caesar: A Beginner's Guide (James S. Ruebel)
Elizabeth Cook, Achilles: A Novel (Roxanne Gentilcore)Audio Review:
Robert Sonkowsky, Selections from Ovid Read in Classical Latin (Jerise Fogel)Poetry:
Alison Traweek, "Medea My Mind"

Issue 4.1

Madelyn Bergen Dick, “Of Battles and the Writing of History: The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest”
Judith P. Hallett, “Classics and the 77th Annual Scripps National Spelling Bee”
David Frauenfelder, “The Story of the Alphabet”
Monica Silveira Cyrino, “She’ll Always Have Paris: Helen in Wolfgang Petersen’s Troy”
Christopher Grocock and Sally Grainger, “What’s Cooking? New (and Old) in Ancient Food Studies”
Stephen G. Daitz, “An Adventure on Mount Olympos”Book Reviews:
Jennifer Morrish Tunberg and Terence O. Tunberg (trans.), Cattus Petasatus (James B. Rives)
Bill Neal, Gardener’s Latin: A Lexicon (John M. McMahon)
Stephen Bertman, Climbing Olympus: What You Can learn from Greek Myth (Thomas J. Sienkewicz)

 

Notable Web Site:
The VRoma Project (http://www.vroma.org)

Issue 4.2

Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow, “What’s New at Pompeii and Herculaneum? Research, Excavation, Exhibitions, and Books”
Daniel N. Erickson, “Almi Parentes”
Kenneth W. Goings and Eugene O’Connor, “‘Tell Them We Are Rising’: African Americans and the Classics”
Milena Minkova and Terence Tunberg, “Oral Latin: Loquimur Quo Melius Legamus – We Speak To Read Better”
John M. Fossey, “Greek and Roman Antiquities at The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts”

 

Book Reviews
Diane L. Johnson, AREIOS POTĒR kai hē tou philosophou lithos
Helen Geagan, The October Horse
Audio ReviewRachel Kitzinger, A Recital of Ancient Greek PoetryPoetry
Marie Cleary, “To A Professor of Latin”Ask A Classicist

Issue 5.1

Susan Ford Wiltshire, “The Classicist President”
Thomas Falkner, “Novel Approaches to the Classics: Part III”
Hazel E. Barnes, “Whatever Happened in Thessaly? A Postmodern Fantasy”Robert J. Littman, “The Plague of Athens: Current Analytic Techniques”
W. Gerald Heverly, “From Scroll to Database: What Do Classics Librarians Do?”
Donald Lateiner and Lee Fratantuono, “The Ohio Wesleyan ‘Virgil Vigil’”

Book Reviews
Margaret Attwood, The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus (Matthew Clark)
Barry Unsworth, The Song of the Kings (Mary-Kay Gamel)
General Interest
Did You Know ?
Ask A Classicist
From the Editor

Issue 5.2

Articles
Margaret Drabble, “Crossing the Styx: The Afterlife of the Afterlife”
Christopher A. Faraone, “What’s New in Ancient Roman Magic: Recent Archaeological Discoveries”
Carl Rubino, “It Was Their Destiny: Roman Power and Imperial Self Esteem”
Mary Louise Hart, “The Reimagined Getty Villa”
Michael Wurth, “Plato’s Symposium: A Filmmaker’s Perspective”
Terence O. Tunberg, “The World of Neo-Latin”

 

Reviews
Alison Futrell, “Shadow Government: HBO’s Rome”
Anne Ursu, The Shadow Thieves (Sally Davis)
Peter Needham, trans., Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis (Matthew McGowan)
Benita Kane Jaro, The Lock, The Key and The Door in the Wall (James S. Ruebel)
C. S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (James B.Rives)

General Interest
Julia Budenz, A Pair of Pieces from Book Four of “The Gardens of Flora Baum”
Did You Know . . .
Ask A Classicist
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant to the American Philological Association

Issue 6.1

Articles
James P. Rooney, “The Minoan Tsunami, Part I”
T. Davina McClain, “The Hopi Myth Field Mouse Goes to War and the World of Greek Epic”
Christopher Grundke, “Orbis Grammaticus: Partium Grammaticarum Exploratio”
Christopher Arnander, “A Plum Eater among the Gophers: Teaching Classics Fifty Years Ago in Minnesota”
David Pinault, “Pakistan’s Peshawar Museum, Home of Greco-Buddhist Treasures, Celebrates Its Centennial”
Fred Booth, “Nicolaus Hussovianus: Hunting the Lithuanian Bison”

Reviews
Monica S. Cyrino, Film Review: 300
Milena Minkova and Terence Tunberg, Mater Anserina: Poems in Latin for Children (Diane Johnson)
Nicholas Nicastro, Empire of Ashes: A Novel of Alexander the Great (Jeanne Reames)
Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Heroes: Saviours, Traitors, and Supermen: A History of Hero Worship (Thomas J. Sienkewicz)
Saviour Pirotta, The Orchard Book of First Greek Myths (Miriam Riverlea)

General Interest
“From Gatekeeper to Gateway” – Progress in the APA’s Campaign for Classics
Ask A Classicist
Did You Know . . .
Guidelines for Contributors

Issue 6.2

Articles
Marilyn B. Skinner, “What’s New in Sappho Studies: The Cologne Papyri”
Mary-Kay Gamel, “The Ancient Mediterranean Onstage in Chicago”
Joel Iskowitz, “The Ancient World and American Coins: The Artistic Infusion Program at the United States Mint”
Stacie Raucci, “Recreating the Ancient World on Film: A Conference”
Michael Curtis, Epigrams
James P. Rooney, “The Minoan Tsunami, Part II”
David H. Porter and Godfrey M. Bakuli, “A New Antigone”
Anne-Marie Lewis, “Parsing the Nowhere Man”

Reviews
M. D. Usher, Wise Guy: The Life and Philosophy of Socrates (Andrew Reece)
Peter Needham, trans., Harrius Potter et Camera Secretorum (Bryan C. Daleas)
Patrice Rankine, Ulysses in Black: Ralph Ellison, Classicism, and African American Literature (John T. Quinn)
Elizabeth Friedmann, A Mannered Grace: The Life of Laura (Riding) Jackson (Judith P. Hallett)
Matthew L. Hunter, Jason and Medea: A Whirlwind of Ruin (Laura Lippman)

General Interest
From the Editor: Ave atque Vale
The Agora Online: Keep Up to Date on News and Events in Classics
Capital Campaign News
Ask A Classicist
Did You Know . . .
Guidelines for Contributors