Virgil and his Translators

by Braund, Susanna; Torlone, Zara Martirosova

• ISBN13: 9780198810810
• ISBN10: 0198810814
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2018-11-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Susanna Braund, Professor of Latin Poetry and its Reception, University of British Columbia,Zara Martirosova Torlone, Professor of Classics, Miami University, Ohio

Susanna Braund moved to the University of British Columbia in 2007 to take up a Canada Research Chair in Latin Poetry and its Reception after teaching previously at Stanford, Yale, London, Bristol, and Exeter. She received her BA and PhD from the University of Cambridge. She has published extensively on Roman satire, Latin epic poetry, and the passions in Roman thought, and has translated Lucan for the Oxford World's Classics series, Persius and Juvenal for the Loeb Classical Library, and also three of Seneca's tragedies. She was a Visiting Scholar at the College de France in 2014 and won a Killam Research Fellowship in the 2016 national competition for her project 'Virgil Translated'.

Zara Martirosova Torlone is a Professor in the Department of Classics at Miami University, Ohio. She received her BA in Classical Philology from Moscow University and her PhD in Classics from Columbia University. She is the author of Russia and the Classics: Poetry's Foreign Muse (Duckworth, 2009), Latin Love Poetry (co-authored with Denise McCoskey; I.B. Tauris, 2014), and Vergil in Russia: National Identity and Classical Reception (OUP, 2015), as well as articles on Roman poetry and the novel, the Russian reception of antiquity, Roman games, and textual criticism. Her most recent publication is the co-edited volume A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe (with Dana LaCourse Munteanu and Dorota Dutsch; Wiley-Blackwell, 2017), to which she also contributed.

Table of Contents

0. Introduction. The Translation History of Virgil: The Elevator Version, Susanna Braund and Zara Martirosova Torlone
Part 1: Virgil Translation as Cultural and Ideological Capital
1. Successes and Failures in Virgilian Translation, Craig Kallendorf
2. Dante's Influence on Virgil: Italian Volgarizzamenti and Enrique de Villena's Eneida of 1428, Richard Armstrong
3. Epic and the Lexicon of Violence: Gregorio Hernandez de Velasco's Translation of Aeneid 2 and Cervantes's Numancia, Stephen Rupp
4. Love and War: Translations of Aeneid 7 into English (From Caxton to Today), Alison Keith
5. The Passion of Dido: Aeneid 4 in English Translation to 1700, Gordon Braden
6. An Amazon in the Renaissance: Marie de Gournay's Translation of Aeneid 2, Fiona Cox
7. Virgil after Vietnam, Susanna Braund
8. Translations of Virgil into Esperanto, Geoffrey Greatrex
9. Translations of Virgil into Ancient Greek, Michael Paschalis
10. Sing it Like Homer: Evgenios Voulgaris' Translation of the Aeneid, Sophia Papaioannou
11. Farming for the Few: Jozef Subic's Georgics and the Early Slovenian Reception of Virgil, Marko Marincic
12. Reviving Virgil in Turkish, Cigdem Durusken and Ekin Oyken
13. Finding a Pastoral Idiom: Norwegian Translations of Virgil's Eclogues and the Politics of Language, Mathilde Skoie
14. The Aeneid and 'Les Belles Lettres': Virgil's Epic in French between Fiction and Philology, from Veyne back to Perret, Severine Clement-Tarantino
15. Virgil in China, Jinyu Liu
Part 2: Poets as Translators of Virgil: Cultural Competition, Appropriation, and Identification
16. Domesticating Aesthetic Effects: Virgilian Case Studies, Richard F. Thomas
17. The Translation of Books Four and Six of Du Bellay's Aeneid: Rewriting as Poetic Reinvention?, Helene Gautier
18. Aesthetic and Political Concerns in Dryden's Aeneis, Stephen Scully
19. Translation Theory into Practice: Jacques Delille's Georgiques de Virgile, Marco Romani Mistretta
20. 'Only a poet can translate true poetry': The Translation of Aeneid 2 by Giacomo Leopardi, Giampiero Scafoglio
21. Wordsworth's Translation of Aeneid 1 3 and the Earlier Tradition of English Translations of Virgil, Philip Hardie
22. Epic Failures: Vasilii Zhukovskii's 'Destruction of Troy' and Russian Translations of the Aeneid, Zara Martirosova Torlone
23. Virgilio Brasileiro: A Brazilian Virgil in the Nineteenth Century, Paulo Sergio de Vasconcellos
24. Between Voss and Schroder: German Translations of Virgil's Aeneid, Ulrich Eigler
25. Reflections on Two Verse Translations of the Eclogues in the Twentieth Century: Paul Valery and Marcel Pagnol, Jacqueline Fabre-Serris
26. 'Come tradurre?': Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Tradition of Italian Translations of Virgil's Aeneid, Ulrich Eigler
27. Irish Versions of Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics, Cillian O'Hogan
28. Cutting our Losses: A Translator's Journey through the Aeneid, Alessandro Fo
29. Afterword. Let Go Fear: Future Virgils, Josephine Balmer
Endmatter
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index