Richmond Lattimore
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American writer and translator
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Richmond Lattimore's Degrees
- Bachelors Classics Dartmouth College
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Richmond Alexander Lattimore was an American poet and classicist known for his translations of the Greek classics, especially his versions of the Iliad and Odyssey. Biography Born to David and Margaret Barnes Lattimore in Paotingfu, China, he graduated from Dartmouth College in 1926. His brother Owen Lattimore was a Sinologist who was blacklisted for his association with China during the McCarthy era, but subsequently rehabilitated when none of the charges against him proved to be true. Their sister Eleanor Frances Lattimore was an author and illustrator of children's books.
Richmond Lattimore's Published Works
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Published Works
- The Wise Adviser in Herodotus (1939) (76)
- The Odes of Pindar (1948) (41)
- Aristophanes: The Birds (1962) (38)
- Story patterns in Greek tragedy (1942) (32)
- The poetry of Greek tragedy (1958) (29)
- Aristophanes, Acharnians (1983) (23)
- The Works and Days; Theogony; The Shield of Herakles (1991) (20)
- The Composition of the History of Herodotus (1958) (15)
- The First Elegy of Solon (1947) (10)
- Herodotus and the Names of Egyptian Gods (1939) (9)
- Sophocle : essai sur le héros tragique (1959) (8)
- Homer's Odyssey: A Companion to the Translation of Richmond Lattimore (1988) (6)
- Aspetti della morte nelle iscrizioni sepolcrali dell' impero romano (1938) (6)
- Le Pronom chez Pindare (1949) (5)
- Hesiod, the Works and Days, Theogony, the Shield of Herakles (1959) (5)
- The Four Gospels and the Revelation (1979) (4)
- Pindar's Fourth Pythian Ode (1948) (3)
- A mysterious Latin inscription in California (1944) (2)
- On Classical and English Poetry (1952) (2)
- The Flowering Meadows (1970) (2)
- The Odyssey of Homer. With an Introduction (1968) (2)
- Practical Notes on Translating Greek Poetry (1959) (2)
- Sappho 2 and Catullus 51 (1944) (2)
- The Second Storm at Artemisium (1939) (1)
- Greek Lyrics. Translated into Close Approximations of the Original Meter (1957) (1)
- Notes on Greek Poetry (1944) (1)
- Acts And Letters Of The Apostles (1982) (1)
- In Spite of Artifice (1966) (1)
- Poets and Peasants (1957) (1)
- The Early Philosophers of Greece (1937) (1)
- Notes from the Odyssey (1968) (1)
- When You Are Old: After Ronsard (1970) (0)
- Demeter in the Fields (1957) (0)
- Through Thick and Thin (1958) (0)
- Pindar Nemean 7. 70-74 (1945) (0)
- The Lake Island of Iannina (1970) (0)
- The Odes of Pindar, Translated (1947) (0)
- Book Review:Selections from the Greek Elegiac, Iambic, and Lyric Poets J. A. Moore (1948) (0)
- Book Review:Epigrammata: Greek Inscriptions in Verse from the Beginnings to the Persian Wars Paul Friedlander (1952) (0)
- Back Matter (1949) (0)
- They Used to Have a Homecoming Day (1981) (0)
- Daisy Fields, Enchanted Forests (1973) (0)
- The Purity of Poetry (1972) (0)
- The Poems of Sappho. P. Maurice Hill (1955) (0)
- Pindar Olympian 9. 100-112 (1946) (0)
- Sirens in the Aegaean (1964) (0)
- A Note on Leconte de Lisle (1951) (0)
- Le Coeur de Hialmar / Hjalmar (1951) (0)
- Les Folies Francaises, ou les Dominos (1971) (0)
- Dum Diana Vitrea (1964) (0)
- Les Épodes d'Archiloque. François Lasserre (1953) (0)
- Book Review:Ethos ed Eros nella poesia greca Folco Martinazzoli (1949) (0)
- Translations from Sappho (1952) (0)
- Simonides: Danae and Perseus (1952) (0)
- The Iliad of Homer@@@The Aeneid of Virgil (1953) (0)
- Goodbye Summer Goodbye Goodbye (1960) (0)
- The Best Yet: Lattimore's Odyssey (1967) (0)
- A Meditation for Saint Lucy's Day (1964) (0)
- Of Truth and Fact (1973) (0)
- Sofocle (studio critico) (1937) (0)
- Letter from Athens (1961) (0)
- Legend for a Shield (1952) (0)
- Optatives of Consent and Refusal (1979) (0)
- The Idea of a Town (1985) (0)
- The Bridge at Arta (1956) (0)
- Translations from Archilochus (1954) (0)
- Hercules at the Crossroads (1956) (0)
- The Gospel Proffer (1979) (0)
- Parnassus Is a Rugged Mountain (1955) (0)
- Souvenirs of Sicily (1963) (0)
- The Decade of Five Iliads (1952) (0)
- Hopes for Explosions (1963) (0)
- Witness to Death (1963) (0)
- The Fall of the City: Three Songs from Euripides (1965) (0)
- On Translating Greek Comedy (1962) (0)
- The Last Train out of White River Junction (1970) (0)
- Embarrassed with Riches (1982) (0)
- A Siding near Chillicothe (1960) (0)
- Aspects of Time (1981) (0)
- Apologies to Creston (1960) (0)
- Lysistrata . The Acharnians . The congresswomen . The frogs (1969) (0)
- Alula or Somewhere (1988) (0)
- The History of Herodotus. J. Enoch Powell (1940) (0)
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