We are excited to announce that issue 52.1 (Spring 2025) of the New England Classical Journal, CANE’s peer-reviewed, open access journal, has been published! The issue contains amazing articles that touch on a range of fascinating topics:
- Hannah Čulík-Baird (University of California – Los Angeles), “The Life of Terence, Revisited”
- Charissa Skoutelas (Johns Hopkins University) and Anthony Smith (University of Florida), “Out with the Old, In with the Young? Youth and Old Age in Vergil’s Eclogues and Georgics”
- Loren Isotalo (Merton College, Oxford), “An Aulete Takes Flight: The Iconography of Music and Myth in a Myrina-Type Terracotta in the Mead Art Museum”
This issue also features the 2025 Katz Prize winning essay, “BASILISSA: Exploring Cleopatra Selene’s Complex Identity through her Coinage” by Btari Laksono (Dartmouth College), and the 2025 CANE Student Writing Contest winning essay, “Echoes of Justice: Parallels Between ‘Conflict of the Orders’ and Modern Labor Struggles” by Darren Lin (Choate Rosemary Hall). We’ve also got two great book reviews on recent publications by Jared Hudson and Julie Stone Peters, along with the presidential letter from T.J. Howell and some cool ads for the 2026 CANE Student Writing Contest, educational grant opportunities, CARE (CANE Retirees for Education), the 2026 CANE Summer Institute at Stonehill College, and the Emporium Romanum!
Check out NECJ 52.1 at this link, and if you are interested in publishing a piece, reviewing a book, or circulating an ad with NECJ, please contact NECJ Editor-in-Chief Daniel Libatique (dlibatique@fairfield.edu).