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Diane Rayor | Translating Sappho and Tragedy

How can we transform the fragments of Sappho’s lyric songs from 600 BCE Lesbos for modern readers? In my 2023 Sappho book, I include every scrap remaining of Sappho’s poetry, mimicking the papyrus on the one hand and the oral performance on the other. The fragmentary pieces that remain give us glimpses into a women-centered life and a woman’s voice from ancient Greece that we otherwise lack. Are there ways to translate Greek tragedy that are true to the Greek and also truly performable? Greek tragedy primarily has been translated for readers. For staging, directors usually piece together an actable script from multiple translations. My collaborative process provides scripts that are performance-ready, while also creating textbooks that accurately reflect the originals. I will discuss my strategies, process, and results for these two very different kinds of performance genres. _ Diane J. Rayor, Professor Emerita of Classics at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, translates Greek poetry and drama, including Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works (2023, audio recording freely available: cambridge.org/sappho); Homeric Hymns (2nd ed. 2014); Euripides’ Medea (2013); Sophocles’ Antigone (2011); and Sappho’s Lyre: Archaic Lyric and Women Poets of Ancient Greece (1991). Euripides’ Helen and Hecuba are under contract with Cambridge. Her tragedy translations have been performed in Australia, Canada, Singapore, UK, and USA. For my theatre translation process see    • Helen Final   _ https://www.paideiainstitute.org/