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

2010 Prices

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Forthcoming

Articles

• Valedictory Lecture: A Bird That Most Resembles A Black Swan, Juvenal VI, 165. R. G. Ussher
• Ireland Invents Greek History: The Lost Historian John Gast. Oswyn Murray
• Some Notes On Imitation, Ancient and Modern. Niall Rudd
• In Memoriam R. G. U. G. L. Huxley
• & Reviews

Recent Issues

Volume 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

Volume 183 (Winter 2007)

Renaissance Greek
Special issue edited by Clare E. L. Guest

Articles

• Varietas, Poikilia and the Silva in Poliziano. Clare E. L. Guest
• Motives of Translation: More, Erasamus and Lucian. Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
• ‘Many Cyruses’: Xenophon’s Cyropaedia and English Renaissance Humanism. Jane Grogan
• Plutarch and English Biography. Judith Mossman
• PLATONOS EPTA EKLECKTI THEALOGI, 1738: Dublin University’s first Greek book. Garrett Fagan
• & Reviews

Volume 182 (Summer 2007)

Philosophia and Philologia: Plutarch on Oral and Written Language
Special issue edited by Benoît Castelnérac

Articles

• Words of Truth: Mystical Silence as a Philosophical and Rhetorical Tool in Plutarch. Peter Van Nuffelen
• Le virtù del pathos. Jolanda Capriglione
• The Story of Damon and the Ideology of Euergetism in the Lives of Cimon and Lucullus. Mark Beck
• Philanthrôpia and Philautia in Plutarch’s Theseus. Maria do Céu Fialho
• Rules for a good description: theory and practice in the Life of Artaxerxes (§§1-19). Carmen Soares
• Vers une philosophie de la citation poétique: écrit, oral et mémoire chez Plutarque. Christophe Bréchet
• The Method of ‘Eclecticism’ in Plutarch and Seneca. Benoît Castelnérac
• & Reviews

Volume 181 (Winter 2006)

In honour of George Huxley
Special issue edited by Mark Humphries and Brian McGing

Articles

• Various approaches towards the Greek Polis. J. Nicolas Coldstream
• Heracles and hydraulics. J. V. Luce
• Spartan traditions and receptions. Paul Cartledge
• Sparta and its Perioikic neighbours: a century of reassessment. Graham Shipley
• War then and now: the legacy of ancient Greek tragedy. Marianne McDonald
• Did Alexander the Great read Xenophon? Kieran McGroarty
• Synderesis, Suneidesis and the construction of a theological tradition. Linda Hogan
• Why the university needs theology. Enda McDonagh
• The library of William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough, 1704-93. Rachel Finnegan
• Artes Etruriae: déanta in Éirinn. Maureen Alden
• & Reviews