A Companion to the Translation of Classical Epic

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-119-09426-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 934 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Armstrong, Richard

Armstrong, Richard H.

Lianeri, Alexandra

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 P

Über Autor(innen)

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.