... from the cultural milieu of the Sandal-Binder’s creation to that of its reception. Two well-preserved examples—one from a house in Pompeii and the other from London—attest to the process of translating or adapting this sensual image of Aphrodite to a Roman ideological framework. In both cases...

... to Euripidean tragedy and antiquity more broadly, as well as the characteristic blending of academic and artistic styles that inform her translation poetics. The introduction includes details of the themes explored in the special issue, together with summaries of the eight ‘takes’ that make up the collection...

.... In The New Yorker , the writer Casey Cep says that the poet, the writer, the translator, Anne Carson is obsessed with Herakles, that she keeps coming back to him, and that her language recognizes that “the whole of history exists in our minds simultaneously with whatever happened yesterday and what we think...