Research Catalog

Title

The Loeb classical library and its progeny : proceedings of the First James Loeb Biennial Conference, Munich and Murnau, 18-20 May 2017 / edited by Jeffrey Henderson and Richard Thomas ; with James Hankins, Sheldon Pollock, and Jan M. Ziolkowski.

Author

James Loeb Biennial Conference (1st : 2017 : Munich, Germany; Murnau am Staffelsee, Germany), author.

Publication

• Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Department of the Classics, Harvard University Press, 2020.
• Cambridge, Massachusetts : Distributed by Harvard University Press

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Details

Additional Authors

• Henderson, Jeffrey, 1946-
• Thomas, Richard F., 1950-
• Hankins, James
• Pollock, Sheldon I.
• Ziolkowski, Jan M., 1956-

Description

xxvi, 423 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

James Loeb (1867-1933), one of the great patrons and philanthropists of his time, left many enduring legacies both to America, where he was born and educated, and to his ancestral Germany, where he spent the second half of his life. Organized in celebration of the sesquicentenary of his birth, the James Loeb Biennial Conferences were convened to commemorate his achievements in four areas: the Loeb Classical Library (2017), collection and connoisseurship (2019), psychology and medicine (2021), and music (2023). The subject of the inaugural conference was the legacy for which Loeb is best known and the only one to which he attached his name-the Loeb Classical Library, and the three series it has inspired: the I Tatti Renaissance Library, the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, and the Murty Classical Library of India. Including discussions by the four General Editors of each Library's unique history, mission, operations, and challenges, the papers collected in The Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny also take stock of these series in light of more general themes and questions bearing on translations of "classical" texts and their audiences in a variety of societies past, present, and future.

Series Statement

Loeb classical monographs ; 18

Uniform Title

Loeb classical monographs; 18.

Subject

• Loeb classical library
• I Tatti Renaissance library
• Dumbarton Oaks medieval library
• Murty classical library of India
• Translating and interpreting > Congresses
• Classical literature > History and criticism > Congresses
• Translating and interpreting
• Classical literature

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Preface / Jeffrey Henderson and Richard Thomas -- Loebing : a personal account / Glenn W. Most -- The Loeb classical library and the process of translation / Jeffrey Henderson -- The I Tatti Renaissance library : a personal retrospect and prospect / James Hankins -- The Dumbarton Oaks medieval library / Jan M. Ziolkowski -- What should a classical library of India be? / Sheldon Pollock -- Transmitting texts, changing the world, moving hearts : translation in Buddhist Asia / Charles Hallisey -- The challenges of editing a polemical translation from the thirteenth century : the Extractiones de Talmud / Alexander Fidora -- Philology goes everywhere : Lorenzo Valla and the New Testament / Chirstopher S. Celenza -- Reading classical antiquity in Old English / Elizabeth M. Tyler -- Les amours de Catulle and The adventures of Catullus / Julia Haig Gaisser -- Amateur translators of the seventeenth and eighteenth centurues / Stuart Gillespie -- Translating the Odyssey : the ethics of translation / Emily Watson -- Greek constitutional theory in the Italian Renaissance / James Hankins -- Translating two Sufi classics from South Asia / Christopher Shackle -- Classics in the vernacular world : the Pañcatantra and Aesop in translation in colonial India / Indira Viswanathan Peterson -- Fringe encounters : translations of antiquity and negotiations of scholarly authority in the margins of Byzantine manuscripts of Ioannes Tzetzes and Manuel Moschopoulos / Niels Gaul -- Translation, identity, and the history of sexuality : explorations in Burton and Smithers' Catullus / Jennifer Ingleheart.

Call Number

JFE 21-4047

ISBN

• 9780674248717
• 0674248716

LCCN

2020914296

OCLC

1205591249

Conference

James Loeb Biennial Conference (1st : 2017 : Munich, Germany; Murnau am Staffelsee, Germany), author.

Title

The Loeb classical library and its progeny : proceedings of the First James Loeb Biennial Conference, Munich and Murnau, 18-20 May 2017 / edited by Jeffrey Henderson and Richard Thomas ; with James Hankins, Sheldon Pollock, and Jan M. Ziolkowski.

Publisher

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Department of the Classics, Harvard University Press, 2020.

Distributor

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Distributed by Harvard University Press

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Loeb classical monographs ; 18

Loeb classical monographs; 18.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Henderson, Jeffrey, 1946- editor.

Thomas, Richard F., 1950- editor.

Hankins, James, editor.

Pollock, Sheldon I., editor.

Ziolkowski, Jan M., 1956- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-4047