Robert Fagles (1933–2008)
Auteur van Homer: A Collection of Critical Essays
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Translator and professor Robert Fagles was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 11, 1933. He received a BA in English from Amherst College and a PhD in English from Yale University. While obtaining his degrees, he studied Latin and Greek on the side. He taught at Yale for one year and toon meer then joined the faculty at Princeton University as an English professor and remained there until he retired in 2002. While at Princeton, he created the university's department of comparative literature and received an honorary doctorate in June 2007. He was also a renowned translator of Latin and Greek. His first published translation was of the Greek poet Bacchylides (1961), which was followed by versions of The Oresteia by Aeschylus and the plays, Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles. Fagles was best known for his versions of The Iliad (1990), The Odyssey (1996) and The Aeneid (2006). Instead of being an exacting literal translator, he sought to reinterpret the classics in a contemporary idiom which gave his translations a narrative energy and verve. He died of prostate cancer on March 26, 2008. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: Robert Fagles, 2006.
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- Fagles, Robert
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- 1933-09-11
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- 2008-03-26
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- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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- prostate cancer
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- Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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- Amherst College (BA|1955)
Yale University (MA|1956|Ph.D|1959) - Beroepen
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classicist
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comparative literature scholar - Organisaties
- Princeton University
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- National Humanities Medal (2006)
PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation (1997)
Harold Morton Landon Translation Award (1991)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award in Literature (1996)
American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1994)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1998) (toon alle 7)
American Philosophical Society (1997) - Agent
- Georges Borchardt
Cindy Klein
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