Egypt’s ἔργα λόγου μέζω: Narrating the Nile in Book II of Herodotus
It is routine, by now, to note that the second book of Herodotus’ Histories stands…
ἓν δὲ τὸ κάλλιστον Χῖος ἔειπεν ἀνήρ·
οἵη περ φύλλων γενεή, τοίη…
“Anyone occupied with the problem of time must still…
After something of a hiatus, we’re happy to announce the return of the Helicon, Yale’s undergraduate journal of Classics.
Our mission remains the same: to publish exemplary undergraduate engagements, preoccupations, and struggles with the classical world. These…
The Helicon, Yale’s Undergraduate Journal of Classics, has for years exhibited some of the best scholarship by Yale students. Its mission has always been to lift those achievements out of the private conversation between a student and a teacher, and display them to friends, classmates, and anyone…
This Thursday, we revisit the Fall 2012 edition of The Helicon, which featured the following three translations of Vergil’s Eclogues IV.31–45. Connie…
“Archaeology is destruction,” Will says. We’ve assembled for his pre-dinner lecture on basic tool skills and…