#translating ancient greek
“Translating is a task of imitation that faces in two directions at once, for it must line itself up with the solid body of the original text and at the same time with the shadow of that text where it falls across another language. Shadows fall and move.”— Anne Carson, excerpt of “Screaming in Translation: The ‘Elektra’ of Sophokles”, in Sophocles’ Elektra in Performance
What a lovely way of explaining it. And in her case, not just across languages, but c. 2500 years of time and cultural difference.
