Stanley F. "Stan" Lombardo (alias Hae Kwang; born June 19, 1943) is an American
Classicist
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, and former
professor
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of Classics at the
University of Kansas
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.
He is best known for his
translation
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s of the ''
Iliad
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'', the ''
Odyssey
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'', and the ''
Aeneid
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'' (published by the
Hackett Publishing Company
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). 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. Lombardo designs his translations to be
performed orally, as they were in
ancient Greece
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. He also performs the poems, and has recorded them as audio books. In performance he also likes to play the drums, much like
Ezra Pound
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.
Biography
Of Italian ancestry, Lombardo is a native of
. He has a BA from
Loyola University in New Orleans, an MA from
Tulane University
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, and a PhD from the
University of Texas
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(1976). In 1976 he joined the faculty at the
University of Kansas
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, where he served as department chair for fifteen years and taught
Greek
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and
Latin
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at all levels, as well as general courses on
Greek literature
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and
culture
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. He was appointed University of Kansas Honors Program director in 2004.
Lombardo is a
Zen master
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in the
Kwan Um School of Zen
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. Along with his wife,
Judith Roitman
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Biography
Roitman was born in 1945 in New Y ...
, 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.
Bibliography
*''Parmenides and Empedocles'' (1982) Grey Fox Press.
*''Sky Signs: Aratus' Phaenomena'' (1983) North Atlantic Books.
*''Callimachus: Hymns, Epigrams, Select Fragments'', with Diane Rayor (1987) Johns Hopkins University Press.
*''Plato: Protagoras'' (1992)
Hackett Publishing Company
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.
*''Hesiod: Works and Days and Theogony'' (1993)
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.
*''Lao-Tzu: Tao Te Ching'', with Stephen Addiss (1993)
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.
*''Homer: Iliad'' (1997)
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.
*''Homer: Odyssey'' (2000)
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.
*''Sappho: Poems and Fragments'' (2002)
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.
*''Virgil: Aeneid'' (2005)
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.
*''Abelard & Heloise: The Letters and Other Writings'', with William Levitan and Barbara Thorburn (2007)
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*''Zen Source Book'', with Stephen Addiss and
Judith Roitman
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Biography
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(2008) Hacket Publishing.
*''Dante: Inferno'' (2008)
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*''Ovid: Metamorphoses'' (2010)
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*''Statius: Achilleid'' (2015)
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*''Sappho: Complete Poems and Fragments'' (2016)
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*''Dante: Purgatorio'' (2016)
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*''Dante: Paradiso'' (2017)
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*''Horace: Odes & Carmen Saeculare'' (2018)
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*''Gilgamesh'' (2019)
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*''Bhagavad Gita'' (2019)
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Audiobooks and Abridgements
*''The Essential Homer'' (2000)
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*''The Essential Iliad'' (2000)
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.
*''Iliad'' (2006) (Audiobook) Parmenides Publishing.
*''Odyssey'' (2006) (Audiobook) Parmenides Publishing.
*''The Essential Iliad'' (2006) (Audiobook) Parmenides Publishing.
*''The Essential Homer'' (2006) (Audiobook) Parmenides Publishing.
*''The Essential Aeneid'' (2006)
Hackett Publishing Company
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.
*''The Essential Odyssey'' (2007)
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*''The Essential Metamorphoses'' (2011)
Hackett Publishing Company
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.
See also
*
English translations of Homer#LombardoIl
References
Sources
*
*Hedges, Chris. ''The Humbling of Odysseus.'' New York Times Book Review. July 9, 2000.
Further reading
Michael Leddy interviews Stanley Lombardo.''Jacket Magazine.'' Jacket 21, February 2003.
External links
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1943 births
American classical scholars
American Buddhists
American former Christians
American people of Italian descent
American Zen Buddhist spiritual teachers
Classical scholars of the University of Kansas
Homeric scholars
Living people
Loyola University New Orleans alumni
Translators to English
Tulane University alumni
University of Kansas faculty
University of Texas at Austin alumni
Translators of Homer
Translators of Virgil
Translators of Dante Alighieri