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Some Principles
A few guiding principles of my translation practice:
1. If the original uses a traditional poetic verse form (or several such forms), the translation should find a way to honor and echo this feature – for instance by using a traditional m...
The Send Off
People often think that translation is difficult only for the long, fancy, unusual words – the ones like “polytropos”. But that is not true. Frequently, the most ordinary words and phrases – the ones that do not make the reader of the origi...
On Complicated...
Most Homeric characters have a small number of standard epithets, which can fit metrically with the name in different positions in the line. Achilles is "swift-footed" and "son of Peleus". Agamemnon is "lord of men" and "son of Atreus"....
Translation Comparison: The Odyssey Bed
In Odyssey book 23, Penelope tells Eurycleia, the old enslaved nurse, to pull out the bed from the bedroom so her guest, the ostensible old beggar (who is actually her husband Odysseus in disguise), can sleep. She has not yetacknowledged hi...
Translating the beginning of the Odyssey: 4 ways
This selection of four translations of the first ten lines of the Odyssey (the "proem", as it's known among Homerists) has done the rounds online. So I wanted to write up some notes on the specific choices of each of these translations in r...
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I am a classical scholar, a professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and a translator of ancient literature, including the Odyssey and the Iliad.
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