
Translators to English
== Translators of Homer == Samuel Butler George Chapman (Iliad, 1611; Odyssey, 1614–15) Albert Spaulding Cook William Cowper (complete, 1791) Robert Fagles Robert Fitzgerald Martin Hammond Judith Kazantzis Andrew Lang and Samuel Henry Butcher (complete, in prose, 1879) Richmond Lattimore T. E. Lawrence Stanley Lombardo George Herbert Palmer Alexander Pope (Iliad, 1715–1720; Odyssey, 1725-6) E. V. Rieu W.H.D. Rouse Emily Wilson (Odyssey, 2017) == Translators of Herodotus' The Histories == Henry Francis Cary A. D. Godley David Grene G. C. Macaulay Enoch Powell George Rawlinson Aubrey de Sélincourt Robin Waterfield == Translators of Sophocles == George Adams Robert Bagg Theodore Alois Buckley Kelly Cherry Richard Claverhouse Jebb Peter Constantine John Dryden Robert Fagles Ruth Fainlight Thomas Francklin George Garrett David Grene Richmond Lattimore Peter Meineck Robert Potter Paul Roche Thomas Sheridan David R. Slavitt Isaac William Stuart (1809–1861) Lewis Theobald (1688–1744) Paul Woodruff Theodore Dwight Woolsey Eduard Wunder == Translators of Thucydides == Walter Blanco Richard Crawley Thomas Hobbes Benjamin Jowett William Smith Rex Warner == Translators of Plutarch == Arthur Hugh Clough – revised Dryden's version in the nineteenth century John Dryden and others – Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans Philemon Holland – Plutarch's Moralia (1603) Sir Thomas North – translated Plutarch's Parallel Lives via the French of Jacques Amyot. This was the version Shakespeare used as a source for his Roman plays.
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Caxton and the Printing Press
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss printer William Caxton and the impact of the printing press in England.
18 October 2012
Featuring: Richard Gameson, Julia Boffey, David Rundle
Wyclif and the Lollards
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval philosopher and theologian John Wyclif and his followers, the Lollards.
16 June 2011
Featuring: Anthony Kenny, Anne Hudson, Rob Lutton
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