Translating the Heavens : Aratus, Germanicus, and the Poetics of Latin Translation
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Lang Classical Studies
ISBN-10
0820469394
ISBN-13
9780820469393
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 2nd, 2003
Print length
279 Pages
Weight
552 grams
Dimensions
15.90 x 26.60 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
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Germanicus Caesar’s translation of Aratus’s celebrated astronomical poem, Phaenomena, is crucial for the study of the poetics of Latin translation. Building on the foundation of translation studies, Translating the Heavens investigates how Germanicus rewrote the Phaenomena as an Augustan aetiological poem that subverts the religious and philosophical themes of the original. In Germanicus’s version the map of heaven becomes an Ovidian firmament of love and transformation. Translating the Heavens shows that the poetics of Latin translation far surpasses in complexity and sophistication the conventional notion of the translator as an interlingual scribe who mechanically substitutes the words of one language for the words of another.
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