Translation as a Battlefield: Dryden, Pope and the frogs and mice.
This essay is an examination of the early translation history of Batrachomyomachia, a miniature epic poem of just 300 lines often transmitted with the Homeric corpus, into English. The earliest five translations are those of William Fowldes (1603), George Chapman (1624), Samuel Parker (1700), Thomas...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of the Classical Tradition Vol. 18; no. 4; pp. 547 - 569 |
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Springer Nature
Dec2011
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