• Stanley Lombardo Iliad

(alias Hae Kwang; born, ) is an American, and former of Classics at the. He is best known for his of the, the, and the. 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. Lombardo designs his translations to be, as they were in. He also performs the poems, and has recorded them as audio books.

In performance he also likes to play the drums, much like. This article on an is a. You can help Wikiquote. Contents. Quotes Works and Days and Theogony (1993) Quotations from Lombardo's translation of 's Works and Days and Theogony (Hackett Publishing Company, 1993),. We know how to tell many believable lies, But also, when we want to, how to speak the plain truth. Theogony, lines 28–29.

Whoever escapes marriage And women's harm, comes to deadly old age Without any son to support him. Theogony, lines 607–609. There's no way to get around the mind of Zeus. Theogony, line 617 (1997) Quotations from Lombardo's translation of the Iliad (Hackett Publishing Company, 1997),. Rage: Sing, Goddess, Achilles' rage, Black and murderous, that cost the Greeks Incalculable pain.

Book I, opening lines. Human generations are like leaves in their seasons. The wind blows them to the ground, but the tree Sprouts new ones when spring comes again.

Their generations come and go. Book VI, lines 149–152; Glaucus to Diomedes. It was glorious to see—if your heart were iron, And you could keep from grieving at all the pain. Book XIII, lines 355–356.

I have borne what no man who has walked this earth has ever yet borne. I have kissed the hand of the man who killed my son.

Ah, my friend, if you and I could only Get out of the war alive and then immortal and ageless all of our days, I would never again fight among the foremost Or send you into battle where men win glory. Download tamil movie romeo juliet songs. But as it is, death is everywhere In more shapes that we can count, And since no mortal is immune or can escape, Let's go forward, either to give glory To another man, or get glory from him. Book XX, lines 333–342; Sarpedon to Glaucus. Don't try to cut any deals with me, Hector.

Do lions make peace treaties with men? Do wolves and lambs agree to get along?. Book XXII, lines 287–289; spoken by Achilles. I have borne what no man Who has walked this earth has ever yet borne. I have kissed the hand of the man who killed my son. Book XXIV, lines 541–543; Priam to Achilles.

(2000) Quotations from Lombardo's translation of the Odyssey (Hackett Publishing Company, 2000),. And for yourself, may the gods grant you Your heart's desire, a husband and a home, And the blessing of a harmonious life. For nothing is greater or finer than this, When a man and woman live together With one heart and mind, bringing joy To their friends and grief to their foes.

Book VI, lines 183–189; Odysseus to Nausicaa. Don't try to sell me on death, Odysseus.

I'd rather be a hired hand back up on earth, Slaving away for some poor dirt farmer, Than lord it over all these withered dead. Book XI, lines 510–513; spoken by the ghost of Achilles. 's Poems and Fragments (2002) Quotations from Lombardo's translation of Sappho's Poems and Fragments (Hackett Publishing Company, 2002),.

Shimmering, iridescent, deathless Aphrodite. 1. Some say an army on horseback, some say on foot, and some say ships are the most beautiful things on this black earth, but I say it is whatever you love.

31. The moon has set, And the Pleiades. The hour has gone. I sleep alone.

72 (2005) Quotations from Lombardo's translation of the Aeneid (Hackett Publishing Company, 2005),. Your mission, Roman, is to rule the world. These will be your arts: to establish peace, To spare the humbled, and to conquer the proud. Book VI, lines 1016–1018; Anchises to Aeneas. (2008) Quotations from Lombardo's translation of the Inferno (Hackett Publishing Company, 2008),. Through me is the way to the city of woe. Through me is the way to sorrow eternal.

Stanley Lombardo Iliad

Through me is the way to the lost below. Canto III, lines 1–3 External links. Encyclopedic article on at Wikipedia.