Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics at Boston University

11/11/2025

Mark next Monday on your calendars for a conversation with prolific Nigerian author Femi Osofisan, and register here to receive a link to the Zoom lecture room: https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/RvoM2017SHSyQm_RY6BrAg #/registration

10/11/2025

Our poll nudges onto N. Who’s your favorite Roman? Write in here or head to our other socials to hit the polls:

Naevius
Nepos
Nero
Numa

07/11/2025

Those with access to ProjectMuse can enjoy the Fall issue of Arion. Single electronic issue access is also available for purchase: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/834

Print subscribers will receive their issues soon. Subscribe here to join them: www.bu.edu/arion/subscribe

06/11/2025

Arion is very proud to present more of Robert Kaplan’s beautiful poetry in its Fall issue. Subscribe here to be among its first readers: www.bu.edu/arion/subscribe
And enjoy a selection of Kaplan’s previously published poetry here:https://www.bu.edu/arion/files/2025/10/Kaplan.pdf

05/11/2025

In our fall issue, Kyle Gervais translates from Statius’ Thebaid. Subscribe here to be among its first readers: www.bu.edu/arion/subscribe
And enjoy Gervais’ 2022 Arion translation from Ovid’s Amores here:https://www.bu.edu/arion/files/2025/10/i-Gervais.pdf

04/11/2025

Those in the Boston area, mark your calendars for this Friday at BU for a talk by Jared Hudson on Pomponius Mela. We hope to see you there!

03/11/2025

In our fall issue, Emily Greenwood reviews Justine McConnell’s book Derek Walcott and the Creation of a Classical Caribbean. Subscribe here to be among its first readers: www.bu.edu/arion/subscribe
You can enjoy one of McConnell’s several performance reviews for Arion here:https://www.bu.edu/arion/files/2025/10/McConnell.pdf

31/10/2025

Caecilia Metella won in our polls this week. Have an idea for an Arion essay about her, her tomb, or the Via Appia? Check out our author guidelines here: www.bu.edu/arion/contribute

30/10/2025

Poggio Bracciolini died on this day in 1459. The humanist restored such manuscripts as Lucretius’ DRN, Quintilian’s IO, Virtruvius’ de Architectura, and Silius Italicus’ Punica. Celebrate Bracciolini’s contributions with Luke Soucy’s translation of Silius’ Punica 1 here:https://www.bu.edu/arion/files/2025/10/Soucy.pdf

29/10/2025

In our forthcoming issue, you’ll find an insightful reading of Hart Crane’s Horatian influences by Justin Hudak. Subscribe here to be among its first readers: www.bu.edu/arion/subscribe
You can enjoy Hudak’s 2018 “Notes toward a Horatian Stevens” here:https://www.bu.edu/arion/files/2025/10/Hudak.pdf

28/10/2025

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28/10/2025

Arion’s fall issue is in press now. Subscribe here to be among its first readers: www.bu.edu/arion/subscribe