Review of Henderson & Thomas (eds.), The Loeb Classical Library and its progeny

BRYN MAY CLASSICAL REVIEW: The Loeb Classical Library and its progeny.

Jeffrey Henderson, Richard F. Thomas, The Loeb Classical Library and its progeny: proceedings of the First James Loeb Biennial Conference, Munich and Murnau, 18–20 May 2017. Loeb Classical Monographs. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 456. ISBN 9780674248717 $30.00.

Review by
Mirte Liebregts, Radboud University. mirte.liebregts@ru.nl

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This volume is not just a promotion of the four Harvard bilingual series; the bilingual format itself and the accessibility of a text through the vernacular are now and then challenged (Wilson, Tyler). The publication is more broadly relevant for understanding the ways in which the act of translating ‘classical’ texts has functioned in the past and functions in the present, and it exemplifies that the study of translation transcends disciplinary borders. ...

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