Translating Antiquity Session 2

  • October 17, 2018, 12–1:20 pm
  • 161 East Pyne, Princeton University

Ancient translation practices

We will be reading Chapter 2 (“The Roman Translation Project”) from Denis Feeney, Beyond Greek: The Beginnings of Latin Literature (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016); excerpts from Chapter 5 (“Hybridity, the Middle Ground, and the Conundrum of Mixing,” section titled “Aphrodite in the Middle Ground”) in S. Rebecca Martin, The Art of Contact: Comparative Approaches to Greek and Phoenician Art (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017); and Jennifer Larson, “Bilingual Inscriptions and Translation in the Ancient Mediterranean World” (2011).

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Lunch will be provided but please RSVP to Eileen Robinson.