Classics Graduate Colloquium Series

Wed, Oct 4 2017, 4:45pm
MLC Room 207
Seminars

Go Tell the Spartans - Translating the Thermopylae Epitaph

This paper considers Simonides's famous epitaph by examining three English translations, as well as Cicero's Latin translation, and evaluating their fidelity to the Greek original using Eugene Nida's principles of "Dynamic Equivalence."

Austin Becker