University of Kansas Professor of Classics Stanley Lombardo will present a dramatic reading from Vergil's Aeneid on Wednesday, Feb. 15, at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Center auditorium (G027). He is one of today's preeminent translators of ancient literature. His translation of Homer's Iliad received the Byron Caldwell Book Award and was performed at Lincoln Center by the Aquila Theatre Company, and his version of the Odyssey was named a New York Times Book of the Year. Free and open to the public.
Lombardo is making his fourth visit to Hamilton. His translation of Hesiod received a National Translation Center Award, and his version of Sappho was a finalist for the Pen Literary Award. Professor Lombardo has also published translations of Parmenides, Aratus, Callimachus, and Plato. He is the author of numerous papers, reviews, poems and short translations. He has lectured widely and has given dramatic readings of his work on many campuses and in venues such as the Smithsonian Institution, the Chicago Poetry Center, C-SPAN, and National Public Radio.
For more information, please call or write to Carl A. Rubino (315-859-4283, crubino@hamilton.edu) in the Department of Classics.
