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John Herington

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Possessing the golden key (Features) , February 1997, 4
The sixth in a series on “The future of the European past,”

Losing Virgil (Books) , November 1996, 58
Review of Virgil in English edited by K. W. Gransden

Davenport's pleiad (Books) , November 1995, 69
On Seven Greeks: Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman, Anakreon, Herakleitos, Diogenes, Herondas edited by Guy Davenport, New Directions, 241 pages, $16.95.

Apologies for the ancients (Books) , October 1993, 58
A review of The Norton Book of Classical Literature edited by Bernard Knox.

The song of the bow (Books) , October 1992, 73
A review of The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney.

Chorus of the dead in the laboratory of Frederick Ruysch (Poems) , June 1990, 54
“Coro di morti nello studio di Frederico Ruysch” by Giacomo Leopardi, translated by John Herington.

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