William Arrowsmith
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Born | William Ayres Arrowsmith April 13, 1924 Orange, New Jersey, US |
Died | February 21, 1992 Brookline, Massachusetts, US | (aged 67)
Nationality | American |
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Occupation(s) | classicist, academic, and translator |
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Known for | his classical and contemporary translations |
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William Ayres Arrowsmith (April 13, 1924 – February 21, 1992) was an American classicist, academic, and translator.
Life
Born in
Arrowsmith is remembered for his translations of Petronius's Satyricon (1959) and Aristophanes' plays The Birds (1961) and The Clouds (1962), as well as Euripides' Alcestis, Cyclops, Heracles, Orestes, Hecuba, and The Bacchae, and other classical and contemporary works. He was the general editor of the 33-volume The Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Oxford, 1973) and of Nietzsche's Unmodern Observations (Yale, 1989). Arrowsmith also translated modern works, including The Storm and Other Things (Norton, 1985) by Eugenio Montale, the Nobel laureate Italian poet; Hard Labor (Grossman, 1976) by Cesare Pavese, for which he won the U.S. National Book Award in category Translation (a split award);[6] and Six Modern Italian Novellas (Pocket Books, 1964).
An academic for most of his life, Arrowsmith served as chairman of the Classics Department at the
Arrowsmith died after suffering a heart attack at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts at age 67.[9] An extensive tribute to Arrowsmith appeared in Arion.[10][11]
Works
- Erich Segal, ed. (1968). "Euripides' Theater of Ideas". Euripides: a collection of critical essays. Prentice-Hall.
- Aeschylus, Euripides (1959). "Cyclops". In David Grene (ed.). The complete Greek tragedies. University of Chicago Press.
- Aristophanes (1969). William Arrowsmith (ed.). Three comedies: The birds; The clouds, The wasps. Translated by William Arrowsmith; Douglass Parker. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-06153-2.
- Petronius Arbiter (1959). Satyricon. Translated, with an introd. by William Arrowsmith. University Of Michigan Press.
- Eurípides (1992). William Arrowsmith; Herbert Golder (eds.). Iphigeneia at Aulis. Translators W. S. Merwin, George E. Dimock. Oxford University Press US. ISBN 978-0-19-507709-4.
Notes
- ISBN 0-8242-0419-0), p. 83.
- ^ Wakeman, World Authors, 1950-1970, p. 83.
- ^ "William Ayres Arrowsmith '45". 2016-01-21.
- ^ a b c d e f Lambert, Bruce (February 22, 1992). "William A. Arrowsmith, 67, Dies; Scholar and Critic of Universities". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 December 2009.
- ^ "Robert Graves Trust: Resources". St Johns College. Sep 19, 2009. Retrieved 14 December 2009.
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"National Book Awards – 1980". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-10.
There was a "Translation" award from 1966 to 1983. - ^ "The Hudson Review". The Hudson Review. 7. 1954.
- JSTOR 20163531.
- ^ "William Arrowsmith; editor, translator, BU professor, at 67". The Boston Globe. 1992-02-22. Archived from the original on 2012-11-02. Retrieved 2009-10-30.
- JSTOR 20163524.
- ^ Dirda, Michael (March 20, 1994). "Readings: Arion". The Washington Post. Retrieved 13 December 2009.
External links
- William Arrowsmith at the Database of Classical Scholars
- James W. Tuttleton, "William Arrowsmith: a recollection" The New Criterion Online
- William Arrowsmith Collection at the Harry Ransom Center