Republic (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (2010)
Republic (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
“He became master of Balliol in 1870 and vice-chancellor of the University in 1882. He was a prolific translator of ancient Greek texts as well as author of many scholarly works on the classics. His translation of Plato’s Republic, which was first published in 1871, enjoyed wide popularity for decades in English-speaking countries around the world.
In his review of the third edition of Jowett’s The Dialogues of Plato,a the eminent American classicist Paul Shorey states the following: “Ingenious,... fluent, easy are epithets we apply to Professor jowett’s renderings; we should never, I think, call them inevitable” (p. 351). Shorey thus tactfully calls our attention to the fact that jowett’s translation of Plato is not as literal as it could be. As Shorey observes throughout his review, Jowett strove not merely to translate Plato but to interpret him—and to transform his Greek into something that would appeal to English-speaking readers in Great Britain and elsewhere during the Victorian era.MoreLess
In his review of the third edition of Jowett’s The Dialogues of Plato,a the eminent American classicist Paul Shorey states the following: “Ingenious,... fluent, easy are epithets we apply to Professor jowett’s renderings; we should never, I think, call them inevitable” (p. 351). Shorey thus tactfully calls our attention to the fact that jowett’s translation of Plato is not as literal as it could be. As Shorey observes throughout his review, Jowett strove not merely to translate Plato but to interpret him—and to transform his Greek into something that would appeal to English-speaking readers in Great Britain and elsewhere during the Victorian era.MoreLess
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