Translation studies can be situated as either a complementary field or an aspect of classical receptions, but there are certaindifficulties in how translation studies can be suitably adapted for importation into classical studies; difficulties which are not currently addressed in a systematic form for graduate students or researchers wishing to gain a comprehensive orientation to classics studies. The proposed Companion would address these difficulties by providing the first systematic work to translation studies as applied to classics.

The proposed Companion attempts to address this lack by providing the first systematic work that would both orient the new-comer to translation studies as applied to classics and provide exemplary, state-of-the-art discussions and case studies on how translation is a central element in reception.

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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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A COMPANION TO THE TRANSLATION OF CLASSICAL EPIC 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 on 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. Throughout the volume, 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. Chapters explore 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.

Inhalt

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' ß ý 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