Roman theories of translation : surpassing the source / Siobhan McElduff
2013, 1st edition. New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. Fine copy in the original colour-printed boards. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #445717
Physical description; 266 p., 24 cm. Contents; 1. Language, interpreters, and official translations in the Roman world -- 2. Livius Andronicus, Ennius, and the beginnings of epic and translation in Rome -- 3. Making a show of the Greeks : translation and drama in third- and second-century Rome -- 4. Cicero's impossible translation : on the best type of orator and beyond -- 5. Late republican and Augustan poets on translation : Catullus, Horace, Lucretius, and Germanicus Caesar -- 6. The post-Ciceronian landscape of Roman translation theory. Subjects; Greek literature ; Translations. Greek language Translating. Translating and interpreting Rome. Translating and interpreting. Rome Intellectual life.
Price: €225.00