Western Translation Theory from Herodotus to Nietzsche
Western Translation Theory from Herodotus to Nietzsche

Author: Douglas Robinson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-04-08

Total Pages: 732

ISBN-13: 1317640772

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Douglas Robinson offers the most comprehensive collection of translation theory readings available to date, from the Histories of Herodotus in the mid-fifth century before our era to the end of the nineteenth century. The result is a startling panoply of thinking about translation across the centuries, covering such topics as the best type of translator, problems of translating sacred texts, translation and language teaching, translation as rhetoric, translation and empire, and translation and gender. This pioneering anthology contains 124 texts by 90 authors, 9 of them women. Sixteen texts by 4 authors appear here for the first time in English translation; 17 texts by 9 authors appear in completely new translations. Every entry is provided with a bibliographical headnote and footnotes. Intended for classroom use in History of Translation Theory, History of Rhetoric or History of Western Thought courses, this anthology will also prove useful to scholars of translation and those interested in the intellectual history of the West.

John of Scythopolis and the Dionysian Corpus
John of Scythopolis and the Dionysian Corpus

Author: Paul Rorem

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780198269700

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This book casts light on the figure of John of Scythopolis, the sixth-century theologian who composed a series of annotations to the works attributed to Dionysius the Areopagite (whose conversion by St Paul is mentioned in Acts 17: 34). It surveys John's sources, methods, and doctrinal concerns in the context of the important theological debates that wracked the eastern churches in the aftermath of the Council of Chalcedon.

Orthodox Readings of Aquinas
Orthodox Readings of Aquinas

Author: Marcus Plested

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-11

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0199650659

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The foremost Roman Catholic theologian of the middle ages, Thomas Aquinas, was hugely popular in the last days of the Orthodox Byzantine Empire, in contrast to his largely negative reception by later Orthodox commentators.This book is the first to explore the long history of Orthodox fascination with Aquinas.

Flavius Josephus: Translation and Commentary, Volume 10: Against Apion
Flavius Josephus: Translation and Commentary, Volume 10: Against Apion

Author: Flavius Josèphe

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 503

ISBN-13: 9004117911

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This is the first English commentary on Josephus’ Against Apion, his apologetic treatise which rebuts Egyptian and Hellenistic slurs on the Judean people. Accompanied by a new translation, the commentary provides full analysis of the historical, literary, and rhetorical features of the treatise, and analyses its engagement with the cultural politics of the ancient world.