The Classics

I was very sad to hear of the passing of Robert Fagles, a wonderful scholar and translator - one of my favorites - of the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid and other works. He is especially near and dear to my heart since he was a professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton focusing on English and the Classics. He was also an adviser to Rebecca Bushnell, a phenomenal professor here at Penn. Eerily, I was visiting the Comparative Literature department at Princeton the day he passed away.

Here is an excellent interview with Princeton Classicist Denis Feeney on Fagles and the art of translation.