Select any work from ancient literature that appears in your textbook. A myth, a poem, or simply a chapter from a longer work.
Step-by-step instructions |Comparing translations of Orpheus and Eurydice
You’ll need two English translations of your chosen text. Since Norton supplies the first one, you’ll have to find a second one:
List of alternate translations (Links to an external site.) at CSN libraries.
Consider eBooks. There are three ebook translations of Ovid, for instance:
1. Allen Mandelbaum (Links to an external site.) 2. Stanley Lombardo (Links to an external site.) (sign-in) and 3. AD Melville (Links to an external site.)
Apollo and Daphne are in Book 1, Actaeon in Book 3, Pygmalion and Atalanta in Book 10 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
Read your chosen translations side-by-side, noting the different images that each translator paints in your head with his or her words.
Find the original date of publication
How to cite a translator’s work
Mark up the texts, isolating a few passages or key words that support your claims.
Keep quotes as brief as possible.
Read your essay as if the textboxes with quoted material didn’t exist.
The only reason you include them is so that I can refer back to them if I get lost reading your paper; they’re not part of your argument.
