Volume 3, Number 3 (September 1996)

Forward! -- Editorial, Ingo R. Stoehr

F O C U S : The Classical Tradition

     View from America --                                                              
     The Classical Tradition as Rewriting, Scott G. Williams

     View from Germany --
     The Classical Greek and Roman Tradition in Contemporary German-Language Literature, 
          Bernd Seidensticker
          translated by Scott G. Williams
    
     »Schade, daß es kein Gott war«--
     Ein Gespräch mit Sten Nadolny, Ingo R. Stoehr
     "Too bad that it wasn't a god"
     A Conversation with Sten Nadolny, translated by Louise & Ingo Stoehr

     Ölmalerei auf Leergebinde -- 1994, Peter Rösel
     Oil Paintings on Used Cans -- 1994 

 
Odyssey

     Das Testament des Odysseus, Walter Jens
     Odysseus' Testament, translated by Leslie Willson

     Odysseus' Heimkehr, Stefan Schütz
     Odysseus' Return, translated by Wanda Merchant

     Telemach, Michael Köhlmeier
     Telemachus, translated by Leslie Willson

     Segler, Dirk von Petersdorff
     Sailor, translated by John Athanasourelis

 
Demeter

     Die Geschichte von Demeter und Kore in der Manier des Serapionstheater,
          Barbara Frischmuth
     The Story of Demeter and Kora in the Style of the Serapion Theater,
          translated by Eilzabeth Richmond-Garza

 
Medea

     Medea, Christa Wolf
     Medea, translated by Roslyn Theobald

 
Hercules

     Die Ästhetik des Widerstands, Peter Weiss
     The Aesthetics of Resistance, translated by Breon Mitchell

 
Sappho

     Four Poems on Sappho

     Sappho, Oda Schaefer
     Sappho, translated by Louise E. Stoehr

     Blick ins Feuer, Erika Burkart
     Look into the Fire, translated by Louise E. Stoehr

     Bruchstück, für Sappho, Jürgen Theobaldy
     Fragment, For Sappho, translated by Kenneth Meyer

     Eros, beim Lesen des Sappho, Gabriele Eckart
     Eros, Upon Reading Sappho, translated by Greg Hanners

 
Socrates

     Tod des Sokrates, Friedrich Dürrenmatt
     The Death of Socrates, translated by Susan Bernofsky

 
Cicero

     Armer Cicero, Max Brod
     Poor Cicero, translated by Marton Marko

 
Rome and Christianity

     Das Testament des Lucius Eurinus, Hans Erich Nossack
     The Testament of Lucius Eurinus, translated by John R. J. Ike