Stanley Lombardo

Stanley Lombardo
Stanley Lombardo
Born	June 19, 1943(age 81); New Orleans
Nationality	American
Other names	Hae Kwang
Spouse	Judith Roitman
Academic background
Alma mater	Loyola University(BA); Tulane University(MA); University of Texas at Austin(PhD)
Academic work
Institutions	University of Kansas

Stanley F."Stan"Lombardo(aliasHae Kwang;^[1]born June 19, 1943) is an AmericanClassicist,and formerprofessorof Classics at theUniversity of Kansas.

He is best known for histranslationsof theIliad,theOdyssey,and theAeneid(published by theHackett Publishing Company). The style of his translations is a more vernacular one, emphasizing conversational English rather than the formal tone of some older American English translations of classical verse.^[2]Lombardo designs his translations to beperformed orally,as they were inancient Greece.He also performs the poems, and has recorded them as audio books. In performance he also likes to play the drums, much likeEzra Pound.^[3]

Biography

Of Italian ancestry, Lombardo is a native ofNew Orleans.He has a BA fromLoyola Universityin New Orleans, an MA fromTulane University,and a PhD from theUniversity of Texas(1976). In 1976 he joined the faculty at theUniversity of Kansas,where he served as department chair for fifteen years and taughtGreekandLatinat all levels, as well as general courses onGreek literatureandculture.He was appointed University of Kansas Honors Program director in 2004.

Lombardo is aZen masterin theKwan Um School of Zen.Along with his wife,Judith Roitman,who is a retired professor of mathematics at the University of Kansas and a published poet, he was a founding member of the Kansas Zen Center.^[4]

Bibliography

Parmenides and Empedocles(1982) Grey Fox Press.ISBN 978-0-912516-66-0
Sky Signs: Aratus' Phaenomena(1983) North Atlantic Books.ISBN 978-0-938190-15-8
Callimachus: Hymns, Epigrams, Select Fragments,with Diane Rayor (1987) Johns Hopkins University Press.ISBN 978-0-8018-3281-9
Plato: Protagoras(1992)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-0-87220-094-4
Hesiod: Works and Days and Theogony(1993)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-0-87220-179-8
Lao-Tzu: Tao Te Ching,with Stephen Addiss (1993)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-0-87220-232-0
Homer: Iliad(1997)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 0-87220-352-2
Homer: Odyssey(2000)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-0-87220-485-0
Sappho: Poems and Fragments(2002)Hackett Publishing CompanyISBN 978-0-87220-591-8.Complete Poems and Fragments(2016)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-1-62466-467-0
Virgil: Aeneid(2005)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-0-87220-732-5
Abelard & Heloise: The Letters and Other Writings,with William Levitan and Barbara Thorburn (2007)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-0-87220-875-9
Zen Source Book,with Stephen Addiss andJudith Roitman(2008) Hacket Publishing.ISBN 978-0-87220-909-1
Dante: Inferno(2008)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-0-87220-917-6
Ovid: Metamorphoses(2010)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-1-60384-308-9
Statius: Achilleid(2015)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-1-62466-406-9
Dante: Purgatorio(2016)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-1-62466-491-5
Dante: Paradiso(2017)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-1-62466-590-5
Horace: Odes & Carmen Saeculare(2018)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-1-62466-688-9
Gilgamesh(2019)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-1-62466-772-5
Bhagavad Gita(2019)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-1-62466-788-6
Nonnus: Tales of Dionysus,with William Levitan and others (2022)University of Michigan Press.ISBN 978-0-47213-311-6
Ovid: Heroides,with Melina McClure (2024)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-1-64792-189-7

Audiobooks and Abridgements

The Essential Homer(2000)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-0-87220-540-6
The Essential Iliad(2000)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-0-87220-542-0
Iliad(2006) (Audiobook) Parmenides Publishing.ISBN 978-1-930972-08-7
Odyssey(2006) (Audiobook) Parmenides Publishing.ISBN 978-1-930972-06-3
The Essential Iliad(2006) (Audiobook) Parmenides Publishing.ISBN 978-1-930972-12-4
The Essential Homer(2006) (Audiobook) Parmenides Publishing.ISBN 978-1-930972-10-0
The Essential Aeneid(2006)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-0-87220-791-2
The Essential Odyssey(2007)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-0-87220-899-5
The Essential Metamorphoses(2011)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-1-60384-624-0

References

^Kansas Zen Center
^Mendelsohn, Daniel (1997-07-20)."Yo, Achilles".New York Times.Retrieved2009-02-16.
^Codrescu, Andrei (December 2006)."Driving over the wine-red hills with Homer on tape".Retrieved2009-02-16.
^"Our Teachers".Kansas Zen Center. Archived fromthe originalon September 3, 2018.RetrievedFebruary 12,2018.

Sources

Younger, John."University of Kansas Classics Faculty".Archived fromthe originalon 2006-09-06.Retrieved2007-01-21.
Hedges, Chris.The Humbling of Odysseus.New York Times Book Review. July 9, 2000.

External links

[1] Kansas Zen Center

[2] Mendelsohn, Daniel (1997-07-20)."Yo, Achilles".New York Times.Retrieved2009-02-16.

[3] Codrescu, Andrei (December 2006)."Driving over the wine-red hills with Homer on tape".Retrieved2009-02-16.

[4] "Our Teachers".Kansas Zen Center. Archived fromthe originalon September 3, 2018.RetrievedFebruary 12,2018.

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