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Stanley F. "Stan" Lombardo (alias Hae Kwang; [1] born June 19, 1943) is an American Classicist, and former professor of Classics at the University of Kansas. He is best known for his translations of the Iliad , the Odyssey , and the Aeneid (published by the Hackett Publishing Company ).
Translators and scholars have translated the main works attributed to Homer, the Iliad and Odyssey, from the Homeric Greek into English, since the 16th and 17th centuries. Translations are ordered chronologically by date of first publication, with first lines provided to illustrate the style of the translation.
Robert Fagles (Penguin Classics, 1990) and Stanley Lombardo (1997) are bolder than Lattimore in adding more contemporary American-English idioms to convey Homer's conventional and formulaic language. Rodney Merrill's translation (University of Michigan Press, 2007) renders the work in English verse like the dactylic hexameter of the original.
Stephen Mitchell – translated Rilke and others; Natias Neutert – translated Gottfried Benn, Eichendorff, Ringelnatz and others; Herman George Scheffauer- translated Rosa Mayreder, Georg Kaiser and others; Edward Snow – translated Rilke; Jean Starr Untermeyer – translated Broch; Leila Vennewitz – translated Boll, Jurek Becker and others
The image was evoked in the 1998 Hollywood film Saving Private Ryan, [6] [7] and appears on the cover of Stanley Lombardo's 1997 English translation of the Iliad as a symbol of the universality of war. [8]
The Alpheios Project is an open source initiative originally focused on developing software to facilitate reading Latin and ancient Greek.Dictionaries, grammars and inflection tables were combined in a set of web-based tools to provide comprehensive reading support for scholars, students and independent readers.
Recitation of Homer Iliad 23.62-107 (in Greek), by Stanley Lombardo. Oral reading of Virgil's Aeneid, by Robert Sonkowsky, University of Minnesota. Greek hexameter analysis online tool, University of Vilnius. Audio/Visual Tutorials for Vergil's Hexameter, by Dale Grote, UNC Charlotte.
In Homer's Greek epic the Iliad, Polydorus is depicted briefly as a foe to Achilles. According to this source, Polydorus was the youngest son of Priam, and thus his father would not let him fight. Achilles, however, sees him on the battlefield showing off his great speed running through the lines and spears him, ending his life.