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Stanley Lombardo

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January 01, 1943

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male

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Literature & Fiction, History

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Stanley F. Lombardo (born 1943) is an American professor of Classics at the University of Kansas. He is best known for his translations of the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid (published by the Hackett Publishing Company). The style of his translations is a more vernacular one, emphasizing conversational English rather than the formal tone of some older American English translations of classical verse. Lombardo designs his translations to be performed orally, as they were in ancient Greece. He also performs the poems, and has recorded them as audio books. In performance he also likes to play the drums, much like Ezra Pound.

Lombardo is a native of New Orleans. He has a B.A. from Loyola University in New Orleans, an M.A. from Tulane Univers...more

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Books by Stanley Lombardo

Average rating: 4.19 · 4,644 ratings · 298 reviews · 19 distinct works

	Stanley Lombardo's Translation: The Essential Odyssey 3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings	My rating:
	Works and Days/Theogony by Hesiod, Stanley Lombardo (Translator), Robert Lamberton 3.63 avg rating — 1,620 ratings — published 750 — 19 editions	My rating:
	Dante Alighieri INFERNO 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Metamorphoses by Ovid, Stanley Lombardo, W. R. Johnson 3.98 avg rating — 11,894 ratings — published 8 — 222 editions	My rating:
	Paxton at Bosworth Field 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	Parmenides and Empedocles: The Fragments in Verse Translation by Stanley Lombardo (Translator), Empedocles 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Complete Works by Plato, John M. Cooper (editor), Paul Ryan (Translator) 4.27 avg rating — 3,097 ratings — published -400 — 140 editions	My rating:
	Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, Burton Watson (Contributor), Stephen Addiss (Translator) 4.29 avg rating — 23,116 ratings — published -600 — 551 editions	My rating:
	The Iliad by Homer, Stanley Lombardo (Translator), Sheila Murnaghan (Introduction) 3.72 avg rating — 74,379 ratings — published -750 — 781 editions	My rating:
	Poems and Fragments by Sappho, Pamela Gordon (Introduction), Stanley Lombardo (Translator) 4.08 avg rating — 242 ratings — published -600 — 13 editions	My rating: