Stanley Lombardo Quotes

Stanley F. "Stan" Lombardo is an American Classicist, and former professor of Classics at the University of Kansas.

He is best known for his translations of the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid . The style of his translations is a more vernacular one, emphasizing conversational English rather than the formal tone of some older American English translations of classical verse. Lombardo designs his translations to be performed orally, as they were in ancient Greece. He also performs the poems, and has recorded them as audio books. In performance he also likes to play the drums, much like Ezra Pound. Wikipedia  

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Famous Stanley Lombardo Quotes

“Your mission, Roman, is to rule the world.
These will be your arts: to establish peace,
To spare the humbled, and to conquer the proud.”

Book VI, lines 1016–1018; Anchises to Aeneas.
Translations, Aeneid (2005)

“Shimmering,
iridescent,
deathless Aphrodite.”

Frag. 1
Translations, Sappho's Poems and Fragments (2002)

“Whoever escapes marriage
And women's harm, comes to deadly old age
Without any son to support him.”

Theogony, lines 607–609
Translations, Works and Days and Theogony (1993)

“We know how to tell many believable lies,
But also, when we want to, how to speak the plain truth.”

Theogony, lines 28–29
Translations, Works and Days and Theogony (1993)

Stanley Lombardo Quotes about men

“Don't try to cut any deals with me, Hector.
Do lions make peace treaties with men?
Do wolves and lambs agree to get along?”

Book XXII, lines 287–289; spoken by Achilles.
Translations, Iliad (1997)

Stanley Lombardo Quotes

“There's no way to get around the mind of Zeus.”

Theogony, line 617
Translations, Works and Days and Theogony (1993)

“It was glorious to see—if your heart were iron,
And you could keep from grieving at all the pain.”

Book XIII, lines 355–356
Translations, Iliad (1997)

“I have borne what no man
Who has walked this earth has ever yet borne.
I have kissed the hand of the man who killed my son.”

Book XXIV, lines 541–543; Priam to Achilles.
Translations, Iliad (1997)

“The moon has set,
And the Pleiades.
Midnight.
The hour has gone by.
I sleep alone.”

Frag. 72
Translations, Sappho's Poems and Fragments (2002)

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