Stanley Lombardo

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Stanley Lombardo (b. 1943) is an American 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 and notable for their anachronistic cover artwork). The style of his translations is a more vernacular one, emphasizing conversational English rather than the formal tone of some older American English translations of classical verse. Lombardo designs his translations to be performed orally, as they were in ancient Greece.

Lombardo is a native of New Orleans. He has a B.A. from Loyola University in New Orleans, an M.A. from Tulane University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas (1976). In 1976 he joined the faculty at the University of Kansas, where he served as department chair for fifteen years and teaches Greek and Latin at all levels, as well as general courses on Greek literature and culture.

[edit] References

Younger, John. University of Kansas Classics Faculty. Retrieved on 2007-01-21.
Hedges, Chris. The Humbling of Odysseus. New York Times Book Review. July 9, 2000.

[edit] Further Reading

Michael Leddy interviews Stanley Lombardo. Jacket Magazine. Jacket 21, February 2003.

[edit] Bibliography

Aeneid, (2005) Hackett Publishing. ISBN 978-0872207325
Callimachus: Hymns, Epigrams, Select Fragments, with Diane Rayor (1987) Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0801832819
Odyssey, (2000) Hackett Publishing. ISBN 978-0872204850
Odyssey, (2006) (Audiobook) Parmenides Publishing. ISBN 978-1-930972-06-3
The Essential Aeneid, (2006) Hackett Publishing. ISBN 978-0872207912
The Essential Homer, (2000) Hackett Publishing. ISBN 978-0872205406
The Essential Homer, (2006) (Audiobook) Parmenides Publishing. ISBN 978-1-930972-10-0
The Essential Iliad, (2000) Hackett Publishing. ISBN 978-0872205420
The Essential Iliad, (2006) (Audiobook) Parmenides Publishing. ISBN 978-1-930972-12-4
Iliad, (1997) Hackett Publishing. ISBN 0-87220-352-2
Iliad, (2006) (Audiobook) Parmenides Publishing. ISBN 978-1-930972-08-7
Parmenides and Empedocles (1982) Grey Fox Press. ISBN 978-0912516660
Protagoras, (1992) Hackett Publishing. ISBN 978-0872200944
Sappho's Poems and Fragments, (2002) Hackett Publishing. ISBN 978-0872205918
Sky Signs: Aratus' Phaenomena, (1983) North Atlantic Books. ISBN 978-0938190158
Tao Te Ching, (1993) Hackett Publishing. ISBN 978-0872202320
Works and Days and Theogony, (1993) Hackett Publishing. ISBN 978-0872201798