Lattimore, Richmond 1906-1984

Overview

Works:	442 works in 1,560 publications in 6 languages and 46,286 library holdings
Genres:	Poetry Drama Tragedies (Drama) Epic poetry Epic poetry, Greek Criticism, interpretation, etc Mythological plays Fiction Comedy plays Satyr plays
Roles:	Translator, Editor, Author, Other, Annotator, Author of introduction, Performer, tra, win
Classifications:	PA4025.A2, 883.01

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Richmond Lattimore

Homer's Iliad : a commentary on the translation of Richmond Lattimore by Norman Postlethwaite( Book )
Homer's Iliad : a commentary on three translations : E.V. Rieu, revised by Peter Jones & D.C.H. Rieu, Homer--the Iliad ; Martin Hammond, Homer--the Iliad ; Richmond Lattimore, the Iliad of Homer by P. V Jones( Book )
Homer's Iliad : a commentary on three translations by P. V Jones( Book )
Lattimore, Richmond Alexander( )
Lattimore, Richmond. educator( )

Two new Academy Fellows named : Richmond Lattimore and Robert Francis( )
Letters, 1925 March 12-1927 May 11, New York, N.Y., to Alexander Laing, Hanover, N.H., and Pelham Manor, N.Y by Louis Untermeyer( )
Four modes of translation by Guy Davenport( )
Isabel Bishop papers by Isabel Bishop( )
Richmond Alexander Lattimore (1906-1984) by Emily Vermeule( Book )
Kenneth Rexroth papers by Kenneth Rexroth( )

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Most widely held works by Richmond Lattimore

The Iliad by Homer( Book )

122 editions published between 1951 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 4,538 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A line-by-line rendering of the great epic retells, in free-running lines of six-beat verse, the great matter of the Trojan War, Achilles' and Hector's fallible heroism and deaths, and the comings and goings of gods and men

The Odyssey of Homer by Homer( Book )

46 editions published between 1965 and 2007 in English and held by 3,085 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A complete translation of the Greek poem recounting the experience of Odysseus during his return from the Trojan War

Iphigeneia in Tauris by Euripides( )

22 editions published between 1973 and 1992 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,461 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This is the translation of the Euripides play about the princess Iphigeneia who narrowly avoided death by sacrifice at the hands of her father, Agamemnon. She was saved by the goddess Artemis, to whom the sacrifice was to be made, and swept off to Tauris. As a priestess at the goddess' temple, she has the gruesome task of ritually sacrificing foreigners who land on King Thoas's shores. It has much in common with another of the Greek playwright's work, Helen, as well as the lost play Andromeda, and is often described as a romance, a melodrama, a tragi-comedy or an escape play

American poetry : the twentieth century( Book )

1 edition published in 2000 in English and held by 2,348 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Contains over 1500 poems by more than 200 well-known American poets, including Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens

Euripides by Euripides( Book )

44 editions published between 1942 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 2,171 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In nine paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer the most comprehensive selection of the Greek tragedies available in English. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of over three million readers for personal libraries and individual study as well as for classroom use

The odes of Pindar by Pindar( Book )

40 editions published between 1926 and 1976 in 3 languages and held by 1,682 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In these odes of victory we are transported in a "blaze of whirling song" to the Greece of the heroes and of the sacred games. As Pindar celebrated the particular victory, invoked the protective deity and told the myths from heroic legend, he expressed the human spirit's loneliness, joy, bitterness and sorrow. The great poet's bold phrasing, deep knowledge of human nature and awareness that "man is of a day" ring strangely modern

The complete Greek tragedies by David Grene( Book )

40 editions published between 1060 and 1992 in English and held by 1,627 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The poetry of Greek tragedy by Richmond Lattimore( Book )

43 editions published between 1958 and 2003 in English and French and held by 1,524 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Six lectures ... given at the Johns Hopkins University in January, 1957, on the Percy Turnbull Memorial Lectureship of Poetry."

Greek lyrics by Richmond Lattimore( Book )

47 editions published between 1949 and 1984 in 3 languages and held by 1,455 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Anonymous metrical inscriptions and drinking songs accompany biographical sketches and selections from the verse of Greek poets of the seventh and sixth centuries B.C

Story patterns in Greek tragedy by Richmond Lattimore( Book )

32 editions published between 1964 and 1969 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,349 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"When Aristotle said that tragedy is an imitation of action, he meant that apart from other purposes and interests tragedy always acts out a story. With this definition in mind, the author examines the most important story patterns found in Greek tragedy. He asks: What are the most important story patterns found in Greek drama? What stories were available for the use of poets like Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides? What did tradition require, permit or forbid them to use? Bringing in many related elements of Greek tragedy, the author defines each of the story patterns suitable to the genre -- tracing the roots to the folklore and myths of ancient Greece."--Back cover

Greek plays in modern translation by Dudley Fitts( Book )

1 edition published in 1947 in English and held by 1,235 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Greek tragedies by David Grene( Book )

6 editions published between 1960 and 2013 in English and held by 1,127 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Contains translations of plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides; a selection from The Complete Greek tragedies

The four Gospels and the Revelation by tr Richmond Alexander Lattimore( Book )

20 editions published between 1979 and 2015 in English and held by 1,076 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Poet and translator of Greek classics Richard Lattimore applies his skills to the four gospels and the Revelation

Aeschylus by Aeschylus( Book )

13 editions published between 1953 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 1,026 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An extraordinary drama of flight and rescue arising from women's resistance to marriage, The Suppliants is surprising both for its exotic color and for its forceful enactment of the primal struggle between male and female, lust and terror, brutality and cunning. In his translation of this ancient Greek drama, Peter Burian introduces a new generation of readers to a powerful work of Aeschylus' later years. He conveys the strength and daring of Aeschylus' language in the idiom of our own time, while respecting what is essentially classical in this dramatist's art: the rigor of the formal cons

The works and days. Theogony. The shield of Herakles by Hesiod( Book )

14 editions published between 1959 and 1978 in English and held by 957 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In Theogony Hesiod charts the history of the divine world, narrating the origin of the universe and the rise of the gods, from first beginnings to the triumph of Zeus, and reporting on the progeny of Zeus and of goddesses in union with mortal me. In Works and Days Hesiod shifts his attention to the world of men, delivering moral precepts and practical advice regarding agriculture, navigation, and many other matters; along the way he gives us the myths of Pandora and the Golden, Silver, and other Races of Men

The frogs by Aristophanes( Book )

16 editions published between 1962 and 1970 in 3 languages and held by 919 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Among extant Greek comedies, the Frogs is unique for the light it throws on classical Greek attitudes to tragedy and to literature in general. It merits a much more extensive commentary than it has so far received, for the establishment of the text itself has rested for over a century on collations which were inadequate and inaccurate. At the same time, its most problematic passages have been the subject, in recent years, of more scholarly articles than those of any other Greek play

Oresteia : Agamemnon, the Libation bearers, the Eumenides by Aeschylus( Book )

8 editions published between 1953 and 1980 in English and held by 748 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A brief discussion of the life of Aeschylus and the structure of early tragedy accompanies a translation of the three plays based on H.W. Smyth's Loeb Classical Library text

Euripides V by Euripides( Book )

34 editions published between 1947 and 2013 in English and held by 717 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In nine paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer the most comprehensive selection of the Greek tragedies available in English. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of over three million readers for personal libraries and individual study as well as for classroom use

Homer's Odyssey : a companion to the translation of Richmond Lattimore by P. V Jones( Book )

15 editions published between 1988 and 2004 in English and French and held by 668 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The complete Greek tragedies by David Grene( Book )

7 editions published between 1956 and 1959 in English and held by 637 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

V. 1. Aeschylus I: Agamemnon. The libation bearers. The Eumenides. Prometheus bound. --v. 3. Sophocles I: Oedipus the King. Oedipus at Colonus. Antigone. --v. 4. Sophocles II: Ajax. The women of Trachis. Electra. Philoctetes.--v. 5. Euripides I: Alcestis. The Medea. The Heracleidae. Hippolytus. The cyclops. Heracles. Iphigenia in Tauris.--v. 6. Euripides II: Helen. Hecuba. Andromache. The Trojan women. Ion. Rhesus. The suppliant women.--v. 7. Euripides III: Orestes. Iphigenia in Aulis. Electra. The Phonecian women. The Bacchae

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