Spring 2016 Letter from the Editors

More from this issue:

Spring 2016 Contributors

  1. Prose Translation - John Henry Newman's The Idea of a University | Daniel Schwennicke, Merton College, University of Oxford
  2. "Marble Funerary Altar of Cominia Tyche" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art | Anne Power, Harvard University
  3. Alexander the Great Through Achaemenid Spacetime | Carlos Augustus Carter, Columbia University 
  4. The Lesser Shall Serve the Greater: Sarpedon and Menelaus in Narratives of The Iliad and The Odyssey | Tyler Dobbs, Harvard University

Spring 2016 Vol. 1, No. 2

Dear Readers,

           In this second issue of our tenure as editors of Persephone, we are excited to bring you a quartet of new and intriguing articles by undergraduate classicists on our updated digital platform. Committed as we are to representing the broad scope of the Classics, we have selected articles that explore topoi somewhat different from those addressed in our fall issue. This spring, diverging from the philological focus of our last issue, we have delved into the realm of material culture and accepted a visual analysis of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Marble Funerary Altar of Cominia Tyche" by Anne Power of Harvard College. In a similarly Roman vein, we know you will enjoy a Latin translation of a portion of John Henry Newman's The Idea of a University by the indefatigable Daniel Schewennicke of Merton College, Oxford, whoe verse translation of William Copwer's "The Poplar Field" appeared in our last issue. And, of course, to counterbalance Rome with Hellas, we have published articles on Alexander the Great and Sepedon and Menelaus in the Homeric epics by Carlos Carter of Columbia University and Tyler Dobbs of Harvard College respectively.

           You may notice that our site has undergone several modifications since we launched our fall issue. Now, if the fancy strikes, you can peruse past issues of Persephone using our "Past Issues Tab," which includes all of the pieces from the Winter 2016 issue as well as links to the catalogue entries of even older print editions of Persephone in HOLLIS, the Harvard On-Line Library Information Service. To make our site more navigable, we have also introduced a search box so that you can easily browse articles by title or author.

           We hope that you enjoy the four articles published in our Spring 2016 issue and that the changesmade to our website facilitate your reading experience. Yet again, we have learned enormously from collaborating with our talented contributors this semester, who never fail to humble us with their knowledge and splendid nerdiness. How lucky we are, and what fun it has been, to have edited Persephone for a second semester!

Sincerely,

Talia Boylan and Nichlas Ackert, '17

Co-Editors in Chief

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