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Research Seminar with Paschalis Nikolaou- Classical Arrangements: Ancient Texts, Beyond Translation

This Research Seminar took place online on Wednesday 9th October 2024. This seminar considers diverse transmissions of ancient Greek and Latin texts into anglophone literatures, often straddling boundaries between what is normally expected from a translator, and adaptive, re-creative textual practices (courtesy, more often than not, of poets delving into translation and in dialogue with antiquity). Examples from the work of Anne Carson, Christopher Logue, Alice Oswald and others suggest several reasons for versioning, retranslation, hybridity, translation as experiment. They also prompt discussion of evolving tendencies in classical reception, aligned at times with the concerns and priorities of literary movements. In this sense, a range of English responses to Homer, Ovid and Sappho will be discussed. We will trace interesting dynamics in ‘group translation’, in works such as Horace, The Odes: New Translations by Contemporary Poets (2002) and Tales of Dionysus (2022), as well as the role that paratexts play in the often-poignant dialogue between scholarship, literary art, and performance. Paschalis Nikolaou is Associate Professor in Literary Translation at the Ionian University, Greece. He is the author of The Return of Pytheas: Scenes from British and Greek Poetry in Dialogue (Shearsman Books, 2017) and Creative Classical Translation (CUP, 2023). His essays have appeared in several edited volumes, including a co-written chapter on ‘Translating Poetry’ for The Cambridge Handbook of Translation, ed. Kirsten Malmkjær (CUP, 2022). In the Spring of 2021, he held a Fulbright Fellowship in the Department of Classics at Ohio State University.