Stanley F. Lombardo crea traducciones de épicas clásicas con un distintivo estilo vernáculo, priorizando el inglés conversacional sobre los tonos formales. Su obra está intencionadamente diseñada para la actuación oral, con el objetivo de recrear la experiencia de las recitaciones de la antigua Grecia. El enfoque de Lombardo da nueva vida a textos fundamentales, haciéndolos accesibles y atractivos para los lectores contemporáneos a través de interpretaciones dinámicas y performativas.
Dating for around 300 BC, this is an early work of the Chinese school of philosophy called Taoism. It offers a complete view of the cosmos and how human beings should respond to it. It has mystical insight into the nature of things and forms a basis for a humane morality and political utopia.
The Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis
Provides the first English verse translation of one of the most extraordinary poems of the Greek literary tradition, the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis. The Dionysiaca is by far the longest poem surviving from the classical world, a massive mythological epic stretching to over 20,000 lines, written in the tradition of Homer.
"Gripping... Lombardo's achievement is all the more striking when you consider the difficulties of his task... (He) manages to be respectful of Homer's dire spirit while providing on nearly every page some wonderfully fresh refashioning of his Greek. The result is a vivid and disarmingly hardbitten reworking of a great classic." — Daniel Mendelsohn, The New York Times Book Review