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1 online resource (236 pages) |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction A Sea of Languages: Complicating the History of Western Translation; PART 1: THE TRANSLATOR AS AGENT; 1. A Handbook for the Translation of Greek Myth into Latin Parthenius, Gallus, and the Erotica Pathemata; 2. Sappho Under My Skin Catullus and the Translation of Erotic Lyric at Rome; 3. Cicero's Translation of Greek Philosophy Personal Mission or Public Service?; PART 2: TRANSLATION AS MONUMENT; 4. Bilingual Inscriptions and Translation in the Ancient Mediterranean World |
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5. The Translation Politics of a Political Translation The Case of Augustus' Res GestaePART 3: TRANSLATION AND THE CO-CIRCULATION OF THE SOURCE TEXT; 6. Translation and Directionality in the Hebrew-Greek Tradition; 7. The Political Aims of Lucretius' Translation of Thucydides; 8. Horace and the Con/straints of Translation; PART 4: TRANSLATING CULTURES, CULTURAL RESPONSES, AND RESISTANCE TO TRANSLATION; 9. Herodotus and Ctesias: Translators of the Oriental Past; 10. How Not to Translate Lucian's Games with the Name(s) of the Syrian Goddess |
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11. Translating Rome Plutarch's Skeptical Etymology in Romulus and NumaPART 5: TRANSLATION BEFORE TRANSLATION THEORY/TRANSLATION AFTER TRANSLATION THEORY; 12. Translation among the Hittites; 13. Three Histories of Translation Translating in Egypt, Translating Egypt, Translating Egyptian; Afterword; Contributor Biographies; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
As long as there has been a need for language, there has been a need for translation; yet there is remarkably little scholarship available on pre-modern translation and translators. This exciting and innovative volume opens a window onto the complex world of translation in the multilingual and multicultural milieu of the ancient Mediterranean. From the biographies of emperors to Hittites scribes in the second millennium BCE to a Greek speaking Syrian slyly resisting translation under the Roman empire, the papers in this volume - fresh and innovative contributions by new and established scho |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Sciarrino, Enrica
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| ISBN |
9781317641087 |
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1317641086 |
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