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Please come to this: staged reading of my under-an-hour abridgment of my Odyssey translation, in collaboration with Aquila Theater/Desiree Sanchez, followed by an hour of discussion with veterans. In NYC.
March 15, 7.30
Free, all welcome. You have to reserve tickets.
@AquilaTheatre
The staged reading will be followed by a panel discussion, with me & a veteran from the @Aquilatheater Warrior Chorus & veteran's spouse, & audience Q and A; we'll talk about the Odyssey, translation, performance, war, homecoming & whatever else comes up.
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If you don't know what this is: "The Sportula" is a pair of grad students who offer micro-grants, little chunks of $$, to any classics student who needs it. If you want the field to include more people from less privileged backgrounds, this is a great cause to donate to. t.co/SJNsrdYsje
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I've been asked many times about my translation of the first epithet in the "Odyssey": polytropos (polytropon). I won't boringly repeat my thoughts on that. But I want to emphasize how very difficult, on some level impossible, all the epithets in Homer are.
How much repetition can a contemporary anglophone reader stand? What does repetition read like to us, vs sound like to an archaic audience? There's definitely a difference in what repetition conveys in different types of text & different cultural contexts. What then to do?
More specifically: the repeated elements in Homer have a dignity, the power of poetic folk memory. But it's often extremely difficult to translate them into English without making them sound just clunky or awkward or totally ridiculous.
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"You made my stubborn heart believe in you."
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My eyes are dazzled when I look at you."
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