Arion - Journal of Humanities and the Classics

Aims & Scope

Arion seeks to publish articles that capture the interest of readers both inside and outside of professional academia. The literary essay, rather than the usual academic article, is best suited to Arion’s purpose of integrating learning and imagination. We value most the contributor who speaks across the disciplines: the author who can write on Sophocles, say, in a way that engages the student of Shakespeare. Arion is one of the most distinguished classics journals and is undoubtedly the most original. The accessibility of Arion to non-specialist readers deeply interested in the core values of Western culture is one of Arion ‘s primary aims. Arion therefore exists to publish work that needs to be done and that otherwise might not get done. We want to stimulate, provoke, even “plant” work that now finds no encouragement or congenial home elsewhere. This means swimming against the mainstream, resisting the extremes of conventional philology and critical fashion into which the profession is now polarized. But occupying this vital center should in no way preclude the crucial centrifugal movement that may lead us across disciplinary lines and beyond the academy. Our commitment is to a genuine and generous pluralism that opens up rather than polarizes classical studies. We will not be coerced into conforming either to the traditional paradigms or to the “new” metaphysic and ideological absolutism of contemporary theory. If we are to move beyond the cant of “isms” now dominating the academy, intellectual daring is needed, not disciplinary diffidence. We are in a quest of freshness of vision, a distinction of thought (as opposed to professional group-think), rigor of imagination, and an energetic sense of the spaciousness of the classical tradition.

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Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

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