The Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny

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Proceedings of the First James Loeb Biennial Conference, Munich and Murnau 18–20 May 2017

Series: Loeb Classical Monographs

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The Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny celebrates the enduring legacy of James Loeb (1867–1933), focusing on the renowned Loeb Classical Library and its inspired series: the I Tatti Renaissance Library, the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, and the Murty Classical Library of India. This collection of papers, from the James Loeb Biennial Conferences, explores the history, mission, and impact of these classical text translations across different societies and eras.
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This volume is ideal for scholars and enthusiasts of classical literature, translation studies, and the history of classical publications, as well as those interested in the cultural transmission of ancient texts.

The papers collected in The Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny explore the legacy for which James Loeb is best known, the Loeb Classical Library, and the three series it inspired, and take stock of these series in light of more general themes bearing on translations of “classical” texts and their audiences.

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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.

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An excellent collection shedding light on many facets of the translation and publication of classical literature. Complete Review

Thought-provoking, illustrating the value ancient, medieval, Renaissance, and South Asian classics hold in original or translated form. The chapters provide a major contribution to classical publications and highlight bilingual editions as a promising area of study. -- Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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ISBN: 9780674248717

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 22 December 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Harvard University Press

Contributors:

Edited by Richard F. Thomas
Edited by Jeffrey Henderson
With James Hankins
With Sheldon Pollock
With Jan M. Ziolkowski
Edited by Jeffrey Henderson

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 726g

Pages: 454

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About the Author

Jeffrey Henderson is William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of Greek Language and Literature, Emeritus, at Boston University. Richard F. Thomas is George Martin Lane Professor of the Classics at Harvard University. James Hankins is Professor of History at Harvard University and founder and General Editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library. He is the author of Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy, winner of the Marraro Prize and a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year; Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy: The Virtuous Republic of Francesco Patrizi of Siena; and Plato in the Italian Renaissance; and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy. Widely regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on Renaissance philosophy and political thought, he is a Corresponding Member of the British Academy. Sheldon Pollock is the Founding General Editor of the Murty Classical Library of India and Arvind Raghunathan Professor Emeritus of South Asian Studies at Columbia University. Jan M. Ziolkowski is Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University.

The Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny