Tag: Richard Thomas
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Nation & World
A literary translator, far from home, feels a tie with an exiled Ovid
Muhua Yang ’21 — living in Cambridge and separated from friends and family by the pandemic — chose the elegies of the five volumes of “Tristia” as the subject of their senior thesis in literary translation.
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Nation & World
New chapter for ‘The Odyssey’
Professor Emily Wilson, the first woman to translate the ancient epic “The Odyssey” into English, explains her milestone achievement.
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Nation & World
Parsing the poet, Bob Dylan
A Harvard professor’s new book probes the influence of the great ancient poets, such as Homer and Virgil, on Bob Dylan and his music.
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Nation & World
Don’t think twice, it’s all right
Harvard scholars weigh in on Bob Dylan’s Nobel for literature
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Nation & World
Calvert Watkins dies at 80
Calvert Watkins, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Linguistics and the Classics, emeritus, died March 20 at the age of 80.