The Hurford Humanities ’60 Center and Classics
Department presents
On Translating Homer
A symposium on approaches to translating Homer and
to Homer in translation, on the 150th anniversary of the publication of
F.W. Newman’s version of the Iliad, one of the main objects
of criticism in Matthew Arnold’s influential “On Translating
Homer.” Haverford College, Haverford, PA
Pre-Symposium Event:
On Thursday, November 16th, faculty and
students will present an all-day reading of Homer’s Odyssey
starting at 8:30 a.m. in the Sunken Lounge, Haverford Dining Center. This
event will last some 12 hours plus, and refreshments will be served.
Symposium Schedule
Saturday November 18th:
Stokes Auditorium
8:00 p.m. Readings from the Iliad and Odyssey, Stanley
Lombardo, University of Kansas
Stanley Lombardo is a professor of Classics at the University of Kansas
and is known for his translations of the Iliad, the Odyssey,
and the Aeneid. His versions have been called “gripping,”
“wonderfully fresh,” and “as good as Homer gets in English"
– as well as translations of the Odyssey, and the Aeneid. What sets
Lombardo apart is his ability to capture the living voice of poetry that
was created in oral performance. He writes his translations to be performed
orally, as they were in ancient Greece.
Sunday November 19th:
John B. Hurford ’60 Humanities Center, Stokes Hall, Room 102
Session I: Approaches to Translating Homer
9:00 a.m. Welcome, Introductions & Remarks:
Deborah Roberts, Haverford; Julia Gaisser, Bryn Mawr (session chair);
and Yopie Prins, University of Michigan
9:30 a.m. “Horsing around with Homer: The Literary Dynamic of (Re)translation
in the Latin and English Traditions” Richard Armstrong, University
of Houston
11:00 a.m. “Sounding Out Homer: Christopher Logue’s Acoustic
Homer”
Emily Greenwood, University of St. Andrews
Lunch Break
Those who plan to attend and would like to have lunch should R.s.v.p.
to knelson@haverford.edu.
1:30 p.m. “From Miniature to Monsterist: Cross-Genre Translations
of Homer”,
Lorna Hardwick, The Open University
Session II: Teaching and Learning Homer in Translation, Roundtable
Discussion
Gest 101
3:30 p.m. Introduction and Opening Remarks
Bret Mulligan, Haverford (session chair); Deborah Beck, Swarthmore; and
Sheila Murnaghan, University of Pennsylvania
Conference will end by 6 p.m.
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