“Translating Greek Tragedy to a Mythic Wild West”
CLT 150 The Art of Translation: Poetics, Politics, Practice Lecture Series Spring 2016
“Translating Greek Tragedy to a Mythic Wild West”
A lecture by Keyne Cheshire, Davidson College, NC
Monday, April 11th, Smith College, Seelye Hall 106, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Keyne Cheshire, Professor of Classics at Davidson
College, shoeless runner, and beekeeper, has published articles primarily in the areas of
Hellenistic and Greek lyric poetry. He has also authored a textbook, Alexander the
Great (Cambridge UP, 2009), and translated
Sophocles’ Women of Trachis , retitled Murder at
Jagged Rock , for a setting in a mythic Wild West
(The Word Works, 2015). His current projects include a “transmigration” of Aristophanes’ Birds and a translation of Homer’s Iliad that emphasizes the epic’s intrinsic orality.
This lecture series is sponsored by the Smith College Program in Comparative Literature, the Smith College Department of French Studies, the Smith College
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Smith College Lecture Committee, the Lewis Global Studies Center, the Five College Faculty Seminar in Literary
Translation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. For more information, contact Carolyn Shread: cshread@mtholyoke.edu.
