Stanley F. Lombardo creëert vertalingen van klassieke epossen met een uitgesproken volkse stijl, waarbij gespreks Engels de voorkeur krijgt boven formele tonen. Zijn werk is bewust ontworpen voor mondelinge voordracht, met als doel de ervaring van oude Griekse voordrachten te recreëren. Lombardo's aanpak brengt fundamentele teksten nieuw leven in, waardoor ze toegankelijk en boeiend worden voor hedendaagse lezers door middel van dynamische en performatieve uitvoeringen.
Dating for around 300 BC, this is an early work of the Chinese school of philosophy called Taoism. It offers a complete view of the cosmos and how human beings should respond to it. It has mystical insight into the nature of things and forms a basis for a humane morality and political utopia.
The Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis
Provides the first English verse translation of one of the most extraordinary poems of the Greek literary tradition, the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis. The Dionysiaca is by far the longest poem surviving from the classical world, a massive mythological epic stretching to over 20,000 lines, written in the tradition of Homer.
"Gripping... Lombardo's achievement is all the more striking when you consider the difficulties of his task... (He) manages to be respectful of Homer's dire spirit while providing on nearly every page some wonderfully fresh refashioning of his Greek. The result is a vivid and disarmingly hardbitten reworking of a great classic." — Daniel Mendelsohn, The New York Times Book Review