Iliad audio book stanley lombardo biography

          The first of Homer's great epic poems, the Iliad portrays the final days of the Trojan war.

        1. Lombardo designs his translations to be performed orally, as they were in ancient Greece.
        2. Audiobook by Homer, Stanley Lombardo - translator, narrated by Stanley Lombardo, Susan Sarandon - introduction.
        3. Stanley Lombardo, professor of classics at the University of Kansas, is among the leading scholars of Homer, and here reads his own translation of the Iliad and.
        4. One of the speakers at Hollins 34th annual Classics Symposium was Stanley Lombardo, professor of classics at the University of Kansas.

          5. Audiobook by Homer, Stanley Lombardo - translator, narrated by Stanley Lombardo, Susan Sarandon - introduction.!

          As someone who almost reflexively refers to Stanley Lombardo’s translations of Homer as “new”, it gives me pause to think that this year marks the tenth anniversary of his translation of the Iliad.1 Happily this milestone has been appropriately commemorated by the release of high-quality recordings of Lombardo performing his Iliad, Odyssey, The Essential Iliad, and The Essential Homer.2 Each of these recordings follows the text—and in the case of the “Essential” recordings, the selections—of L.’s translations.

          With an apt updating of Pope’s famous dictum that “Homer makes us hearers”, the tagline on these recordings—”Homer Speaks…Listen Up!”—ably captures the colloquial vigor of L.’s translations and the importance of performance in approaching the Homeric texts.

          Although not without their quirks, these recordings have much to offer enthusiasts and instructors alike.

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