What’s Found in Translation: An Evening with Diane Arnson Svarlien
Verse translator and classicist Diane Arnson Svarlien gave a reading Tuesday, February 24th at the Rose O’Neill Literary House. The event was part of the series “What’s Found in Translation” and was free and open to the public. Svarlien gave the audience a crash course in translating Ancient Greek into modern-day English in iambic pentameter with text from Euripides’s Trojan Women and other texts.
02/24/2015
Prof. Dubrow plays the role of Helen.
Meaghan Menzel ’16 chats with the translator after the reading.
Caitlin Maltese ’17 receives an autographed copy from the writer herself.
Prof. Dubrow and Diane Svarlien act out a scene from Euripides’s “Helen.”
