Hermathena - A Trinity College Dublin Review

The journal is under the auspices of the Department of Classics. It has been published here at Trinity College without interruption since 1873.

Subject Matter:

Classical World, Theology, Philosophy

Editor:

Professor Brian McGing, Department of Classics

Book Reviews Editor:

Professor Monica Gale, Department of Classics

2013 Prices

An annual subscription covers two issues and includes the cost of postage

• Annual Subscription: €50.00
• Single Issue: €25.00
• Back Issue: €25.00
• Agents less 10%
• ISSN 0018-0750

Recent Issues

No. 187 (Winter 2009)

Articles

• ‘The fox knoweth many things, the hedgehog one great thing’: the relation of philosophical concepts and historical contexts in Plato’s Dialogues. Michael Erler
• The ethics of descent in Plotinus. Euree Song
• Dr Johnson and the Irish. Niall Rudd
• Defining and displaying the human body: collectors and Classics during the British Enlightenment. Ellen Adams
• Notes on a biography of C. M. Bowra. G. L. Huxley
• & Reviews

No. 186 (Summer 2009)

Articles

• A possible Mesopotamian origin for Plato’s World Soul. Leon Crickmore
• Reading Socrates in Plato’s Dialogues (Stephen MacKenna Lecture, Dublin, January 2009). Christopher Rowe
• Reason in check: the skepticism of Sextus Empiricus. Daniel Vázquez
• A note on the name Hermathena and its lepidopteran namesakes. Eileen Kelly
• & Reviews

No. 185 (Winter 2008)

Articles

• A bird that most resembles a black swan: Juvenal VI, 165. A valedictory lecture. R. G. Ussher
• In Memoriam R. G. U. G. L. H.
• Ireland invents Greek history: the lost historian John Gast. Oswyn Murray
• Some notes on imitation, ancient and modern. Niall Rudd
• & Reviews

No 184 (Summer 2008)

Articles

• Archaic Greece in Hellenistic Chronography. G.L. Huxley
• A Note On Aristotelian First Principles. Christopher Panayides
• Aristotle's Ambivalence On Slavery. Donald L. Ross
• Roman Refugium: Refugee Narratives in Augustan Versions of Roman Prehistory. Parshia Lee-Stecum
• & Reviews