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The first volume of its kind to integrate trends in Translation Studies with Classical Reception Studies A Companion to the Translation of Classical Epic provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging account of key debates and case studies centered the translation of Greek and Latin epics. Rather than situating translation studies as a complementary field or an aspect of classical reception, the Companion offers a systematic framework for adapting and incorporating translation studies fully into classical studies. Its many chapters elaborate how translation is a central element in the epic's reception trajectories across the globe and addresses theoretical and methodological concerns arising from this conjunction. The Companion does not just provide a comprehensive overview of the translation theories it covers, but also offers fresh insights into theoretical and methodological issues currently at the top of the interdisciplinary agenda of scholars studying the global routes of ancient epic. In its sections, leading classicists, translation theorists, classical reception scholars, and cultural historians from Europe and North and South America reconfigure questions this research faces today, highlighting methods for an integrated approach. It explores how this integrated perspective responds to key challenges in the study of the epic's reception, emphasizing topics of temporality, gender, agency, community, target-language politics, and material production. A special section also features detailed dialogues with active translators such as Emily Wilson, Stanley Lombardo, and Susanna Braund, who speak extensively and frankly about their work. This is a key volume for all students and scholars who want to engage with research reflecting the contemporary agenda in classical reception, translation studies, and the study of epic in its global literary and cultural routes.

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Author:   Richard H. Armstrong (University of Houston, USA) ,  Alexandra Lianeri (The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Weight:   1.134kg
ISBN:  

9781119094265

ISBN 10:   1119094267
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   25 March 2025
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Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors xi  Acknowledgements xvi  1 General Introduction 1  Richard H. Armstrong  Part I Disciplinary Openings 19  2 Introduction to Part I: Conceptual Openings In and Through Epic Translation Histories 21  Alexandra Lianeri  3 Defying the Odds: How Classical Epics Continue to Survive in the Modern World 26  Susan Bassnett  4 Between Translation and Reception: Reading and Writing Forward and Backward in Translations ofEpic 36  Lorna Hardwick  5 Entangling Historical Time In and Through the Epics’ Translated Presence 52  Alexandra Lianeri  Part II Explorations in Reception 69  6 Introduction to Part II 71  Richard H. Armstrong  7 What Is Translation in the Ancient World? 77  Siobhán McElduff  8 Reading the Aeneid in the Italian Middle Ages: Vernacularizations and Abridgements 94  Veronica Ricotta and Giulio Vaccaro  9 The Ideological Significance of Choice of Meter in Translations of the Aeneid 109  Susanna Braund  10 The Fighting Words Business: Thoughts on Equivalence, Localization, and Epic in English Translation 129  Richard H. Armstrong  11 Women and the Translation of Classical Texts in the Italian Renaissance: Between Humanism and Divulgation, Academies, and the Printing Press 148  Francesca D’Alessandro Behr  12 Anne Dacier’s Homer: Epic Force 164  Julie Candler Hayes  13 Marie Cosnay – Les Métamorphoses 179  Fiona Cox  14 Translating on the Edge: Irish- Language Translations of Greek and Roman Epic 188  Michael Cronin  15 “Intreat them Gently, Trayne them to that Ayre”; George Sandys’s Savage Verses and Civilized Commentary at Jamestown 198  Benjamin Haller  16 The Translation of Greek and Latin Epic into the Other Languages of Spain 215  Ramiro González Delgado  17 From Scheria: An Emerging Tradition of Portuguese Translations of the Odyssey 231  Leonardo Antunes  18 An Epic Leap: Translating The Iliad to the Stage in the Twenty- First Century 243  Thomas E. Jenkins  19 Film Translations of Greek and Roman Epic 257  Benjamin E. Stevens  20 Epic Translation and Self- Scrutiny in Imperial Britain 281  Annmarie Drury  21 Lucretius in Modern Greek Costume: Language and Ideology in Konstantinos Theotokis’ Περί Φύσεως 295  George Kazantzidis  22 Epic, Translation, and World Literature 313  Alexander Beecroft  Part III Dialogues with Translators 323  23 Introduction to Part III: Dialogues with Translators: A Voice Too Many 325  Alexandra Lianeri  24 Stanley Lombardo, Interviewed by Richard H. Armstrong 330  25 Emily Wilson, Interviewed by Fiona Cox 343  26 Dialogue with Susanna Braund 357  27 Dialogue with Herbert Jordan 362  28 Dialogue with Theodore Papanghelis 365  Part IV Future Prospects 371  29 Global Sideways of Epic Translation and Critical Cosmopolitanism 373  Alexandra Lianeri  Index 389

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Richard H. Armstrong is Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, University of Houston, USA. He is co-editor of Remusings: Essays on the Translation of Classical Poetry and author of A Compulsion for Antiquity: Freud and the Ancient World. Alexandra Lianeri is Assistant Professor of Classics and Translation, Department of Classics, The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She is the editor of Knowing Future Time in and through Greek Historiography and The Western Time of Ancient History. Historiographical Encounters with the Greek and Roman Pasts.

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