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Why Are There So Many Translations of Ancient Greek & Roman Texts?
Why are there so many different translations of Homer’s Odyssey, Vergil’s Aeneid, Herodotus’ Histories, or other ancient texts? Though it certainly makes sense to create newer translations if older ones have become incomprehensible to later readers, this hardly explains every translation available in libraries or bookstores. Why so many? Because, as the Italians say: “Traduttore,…
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Were Ancient Greeks and Romans ‘White’?
(Image above: a marble bust of Memnon, an ‘Ethiopian’ (what we would call ‘black’) student & adopted son of Herodes Atticus. From Atticus’ Villa (Arcadia, Greece). 1st c. CE. Currently in the Staatliches Museum, Berlin. SK-1503. (CC-BY-SA-4.0). In movies, tv, and other media, ancient Greeks and Romans are regularly portrayed as ‘white’ people. But were…
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