Virgil and his Translators

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 Collège 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.

this lucid and entertaining collection will serve as a helpful introduction to the complex ideological phenomena which motivate the translation of classical texts.

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