Roman Theories of Translation: Surpassing the Source

By Siobhan Mcelduff

The first book-length study in English of its kind, Roman Theories of Translation: Surpassing the Source explores translation as it occurred in Rome and presents a complete, culturally integrated discourse on its theories from 240 BCE to the 2nd Century CE. This book illustrates that as a translating culture, a culture reckoning with the consequences of building its own literature upon that of a conquered nation, and one with an enormous impact upon the West, Rome's translators and their theories of translation deserve to be treated and discussed as a complex and sophisticated phenomenon. Roman Theories of Translation enables Roman writers on translation to take their rightful place in the history of translation and translation theory.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138243108
• ISBN13: 9781138243101
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"