Arethusa (journal)


Arethusa is an academic journal established in 1967. It covers the field of Classics using an interdisciplinary approach incorporating contemporary theoretical perspectives and more traditional approaches to literary and material evidence. It frequently features issues focused on a theme related the classical world. The current Editor in chief of the journal is Roger D. Woodard. The journal is named for the mythological nymph Arethusa and published three times each year in January, May, and September by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

Special issues of ''Arethusa''

The issues below are examples of themed issues from Arethusa.

5.1 Politics and Art in Augustan Literature

6.1 Women in Antiquity

7.1 Psychoanalysis and the Classics

8.1 Marxism and the Classics

8.2 Population Policy in Plato and Aristotle

9.2 The New Archilochus

10.1 Classical Literature and Contemporary Literary Theory

11.1/2 Women in the Ancient World

13.1 Augustan Poetry Books

13.2 Indo-European Roots of Classical Culture

14.1 Virgil: 2000 Years

15.1/2 Texts and Contexts: American Classical Studies in Honor of J.-P. Vernant

16.1/2 Semiotics and Classical Studies

17.1 Studies in Latin Literature

17.2 Under the Text

19.2 Audience-Oriented Criticism and the Classics

20.1/2 Herodotus and the Invention of History

22 The Challenge of "Black Athena"

23.1 Pastoral Revisions

25.1 Reconsidering Ovid's Fasti

26.2 Bakhtin and Ancient Studies: Dialogues and Dialogics

27.1 Rethinking the Classical Canon

28.2/3 Horace: 2000 Years

29.2 The New Simonides

30.2 The Iliad and its Contexts

31.3 Vile Bodies: Roman Satire and Corporeal Discourse

33.2 Fallax Opus: Approaches to Reading Roman Elegy

33.3 Elites in Late Antiquity

34.2 The Personal Voice in Classical Scholarship: Literary and Theoretical Reflections

35.1 Epos and Mythos: Language and Narrative in Homeric Epic

35.3 The Reception of Ovid in Antiquity

36.2 Re-Imagining Pliny the Younger

36.3 Center and Periphery in the Roman World

37.3 The Poetics of Deixis in Alcman, Pindar, and Other Lyric

39.2 Ingens Eloquentiae Materia: Rhetoric and Empire in Tacitus

39.3 Ennius and the Invention of Roman Epic

40.1 Reshaping of Rome: Space, Time, and memory in Augustan Transformation

40.2 Statius' Silvae and the Poetics of Intimacy

41.1 Celluloid Classics: New Perspectives on Classical Antiquity in Modern Cinema

43.2 The Art of Art History in Greco-Roman Antiquity

45.3 Collectors and the Eclectic: New Approaches to Roman Domestic Decoration

46.2 Pliny the Younger in Late Antiquity

49.2. Vitruvius: Text, Architecture, Reception

49.3 Envois: New Readings in Cicero's Letters

53.2 Material Girls: Gender and Material Culture in Ancient Greece and Rome

53.3 Ovid, Rhetoric, and Freedom of Speech in the Augustan Age

54.3 Origins and Original Moments

55.3 The Reception of Greek Tragedy: Studies in Celebration of the 90th Birthday of John J. Peradotto