Stanley Lombardo

Stanley F. Lombardo (born 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). 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.^[1] Lombardo designs his translations to be performed orally, as they were in ancient Greece. He also performs the poems, and has recorded them as audio books. In performance he also likes to play the drums, much like Ezra Pound.^[2]

Of Italian ancestry, 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. He was appointed University of Kansas Honors Program director in 2004.

Lombardo is a Zen Buddhist. Along with his wife, Judith Roitman, he was a founding member of the Kansas Zen Center.

Bibliography

• Works and Days and Theogony (1993) Hackett Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-87220-179-8
• Tao Te Ching (1993) Hackett Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-87220-232-0
• Sky Signs: Aratus' Phaenomena (1983) North Atlantic Books. ISBN 978-0-938190-15-8
• Sappho's Poems and Fragments (2002) Hackett Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-87220-591-8
• Protagoras (1992) Hackett Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-87220-094-4
• Parmenides and Empedocles (1982) Grey Fox Press. ISBN 978-0-912516-66-0
• Iliad (2006) (Audiobook) Parmenides Publishing. ISBN 978-1-930972-08-7
• Iliad (1997) Hackett Publishing Company. ISBN 0-87220-352-2
• The Essential Iliad (2006) (Audiobook) Parmenides Publishing. ISBN 978-1-930972-12-4
• The Essential Iliad (2000) Hackett Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-87220-542-0
• The Essential Homer (2006) (Audiobook) Parmenides Publishing. ISBN 978-1-930972-10-0
• The Essential Homer (2000) Hackett Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-87220-540-6
• The Essential Aeneid (2006) Hackett Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-87220-791-2
• Odyssey (2006) (Audiobook) Parmenides Publishing. ISBN 978-1-930972-06-3
• Odyssey (2000) Hackett Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-87220-485-0
• Callimachus: Hymns, Epigrams, Select Fragments, with Diane Rayor (1987) Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-3281-9
• Aeneid (2005) Hackett Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-87220-732-5
• Zen Source Book, with Stephen Addiss and Judith Roitman (2008) Hacket Publishing. ISBN 978-0-87220-909-1
• Inferno (2008) Hackett Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-87220-917-6
• Metamorphoses (September 2010) Hackett Publishing Company. ISBN 978-1-60384-308-9

References

Sources

• Younger, John. "University of Kansas Classics Faculty". Archived from the original on 2006-09-06. Retrieved 2007-01-21. 
• Hedges, Chris. The Humbling of Odysseus. New York Times Book Review. July 9, 2000.

Further reading

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