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