# Letter from the Editors **More from this issue:** ## Winter 2016 Contributors 1. Bob Dylan and the Classics: An Interview with Professor Richard F. Thomas | Persephone Staff, Harvard University 2. The Shortfalls of Sticks and Stones: Senses and Sensibility | Elissa Ford, Trinity College, University of Cambridge 3. Selections from the Formularies of Anger and Marculf: A Translation with Notes | Jane Jacoby, Brown University 4. The Dialect of Sappho and Alcaeus and the Dialect of Epigraphic Lesbian:|Keita Kashima, Magdalen College, University of Oxford 5. Amphion's Worthless Walls: Capaneus and the Defeat of Poetry in Statius' *Thebiad* | Nathan May, University of Pennsylvania 6. The Adonis Complex: Resolving Frazer and Segal's Interpretations of the Adonis Myth | Carman Romano, Haverford College 7. Poetic Translation - William Cowper's *The Poplar Field* | Daniel Schwennicke, Merton College, University of Oxford Persephone: The Harvard Undergraduate Classics Research Journal 204 Boylston Hall Harvard Yard Cambridge MA 02138 ![harvard_department_of_the_classics.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum2341/files/persephone/files/harvard_department_of_the_classics.png) ![216px-nymphenburg-statue-4_bw.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum2341/files/persephone/files/216px-nymphenburg-statue-4_bw.jpg) WINTER 2016 Vol. 1, No. 1 Dear Readers, It is our pleasure to bring *Persephone* back to the land of the living after a protracted, chthonic residency of nearly three years. In order that she may spread her bounty as far as possible, we have decided to relocate her to the worldwide web. This new medium will allow us to post articles with greater frequency and, in so doing, increase dialogue among undergraduate classical scholars at universities and colleges across the globe. We have selected articles that we feel reflect the tremendous breadth of our colleagues’ research. These articles address topics that range from Platonic philosophy, to medieval law codes, to verse translations and beyond. The swathe of institutions from which we have solicited articles is likewise diverse; our contributing authors attend schools all over the world, including the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, the University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College and Brown University. We hope you enjoy the Winter 2016 edition of Persephone and that you find the web format convenient and pleasing. It has been an honor working on these articles with our peers, and a privilege standing at the helm of *Persephone.* Sincerely, Talia Boylan and Nicholas Ackert, Co-Editors in Chief \[\[{"fid":"3120906","view\_mode":"default","type":"media","attributes":{"height":"110","width":"290","class":"media-element file-default"}}\]\] --- Attachments- [ picture\_as\_pdf Persephone 1.1 Winter 2016 ](/sites/g/files/omnuum2341/files/persephone/files/persephone_1.1_winter_2016.pdf) ---