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Douglas Robinson is Professor of Translation Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and author or editor of 12 Routledge books, including Becoming a Translator, Translation as a Form, Critical Translation Studies, Translationality, Priming Translation, as well as The Behavioral Economics of Translation.

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Western Translation Theory from Herodotus to Nietzsche offers the most comprehensive collection of translation theory readings available to date, from the Histories of Herodotus in the mid-fifth century to the end of the nineteenth century. This work provides a rich panoply of thinking about translation across the centuries, covering such topics as the best type of translator, problems of translating sacred texts, translation and language teaching, translation as rhetoric, translation and empire, and translation and gender. This pioneering anthology contains over 140 texts with 30 new ones included in this edition. 21 texts by 18 authors appear here for the first time in English translation. Every entry includes a bibliographical headnote and footnotes. Intended for classroom use in History of Translation Theory, History of Rhetoric or History of Western Thought courses, this anthology is also key reading for scholars of translation and those interested in the intellectual history of the West.

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1. Ca. 370 BCE Plato
2. Ca. 200 BCE Plautus
3. 166 BCE Terence
4. c. 85 BCE Cicero (add to existing entry)
5. Mid-1st century BCE Lucretius
6. 21-10 BCE Horace (add to existing entry)
7. 30 CE Valerius Maximus
8. 75 CE Plutarch
9. In or after 177 CE Aulus Gellius (add to existing entry)
10. 450-550 CE Megillah 9a, Babylonian Talmud
11. 1199 Maimonides
12. 1405 Leonardo Bruni Aretino (add to existing entry)
13. 1475 William Caxton (add to existing entry)
14. Ca. 1547-54 Mary Roper Clarke Basset
15. 1557 Joanna Lumley
16. 1563 Alexander Neville
17. 1567 Arthur Golding
18. 1570 Thomas Wilson
19. 1585 Alberico Gentili
20. 1648 Gilles Ménage
21. 1675 Lucy Hutchinson
22. 1686 Aphra Behn (add to existing entry)
23. 1724 Peter the Great
24. 1749 Elizabeth Carter (add to existing entry)
25. 1761 Mary Collyer
26. 1789 George Campbell
27. 1824 Wilhelm Ludwig von Küchelbecker
28. 1829 Pyotr Vyazemsky
29. 1835 Vissarion Belinsky
30. 1836 Aleksandr Pushkin
31. 1843 Ivan Turgenev
32. 1848 Vasily Zhukovsky
33. 1855 George Eliot

34. 1857 Edward FitzGerald (add to existing entry)

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