Translation and Classical Reception Studies: Mapping the Terrain
Richard Armstrong (University of Houston), Alexandra Lianeri (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Lorna Hardwick (Open University, UK), Henry Stead (University of St. Andrews), Emily Greenwood (Yale University), Daniel Orrells (King’s College, London), Thomas E. Jenkins (Trinity University, San Antonio), Karin Littau (University of Essex), Martin Voehler (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
English
Research Centre for Greek and Latin Literature, Academy of Athens, supported by the Academy of Athens, the Kostas and Helen Urani Foundation, Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece, and the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies
This workshop theorizes translation as a conceptual framework and testing ground for rethinking the reception of classical antiquity. It addresses translations as a point of departure for every historical confrontation with the classics, highlighting tensions manifested in the domains of textuality, agency, temporality, communities, medium, transvaluations, and transgressions, and accentuating the crisscrossing pathways, which thread antiquity’s alterity to a global, transcultural and long-term history.