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Translating the <i>Iliad</i> for a Wider Public

Author(s) -

Stanley Lombardo

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

the classical world

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.141

H-Index - 13

eISSN - 1558-9234

pISSN - 0009-8418

DOI - 10.1353/clw.0.0177

Subject(s) - foregrounding , telos , poetry , translation (biology) , literature , key (lock) , variation (astronomy) , linguistics , art , philosophy , computer science , epistemology , physics , biochemistry , chemistry , computer security , messenger rna , astrophysics , gene

This paper considers key principles and strategies in producing a translation of Homer's Iliad that succeeds for a wide audience both as poetic text and in performance. The author's translation of the last c. 100 lines of Iliad 19 is analyzed in terms of tonal variation and authorial voice, foregrounding performance as the telos of Homeric translation.

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