Stanley Lombardo

Stanley Lombardo
Born (1943-06-19) June 19, 1943 (age 81)
New Orleans
NationalityAmerican
Other namesHae Kwang
SpouseJudith Roitman
Academic background
Alma materLoyola University (BA)
Tulane University (MA)
University of Texas at Austin (PhD)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Kansas

Stanley F. "Stan" Lombardo (alias Hae Kwang;[1] born June 19, 1943) is an American Classicist, and former professor of Classics at the University of Kansas.

He is best known for his translations of the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid (published by the Hackett Publishing Company). The style of his translations is a more vernacular one, emphasizing conversational English rather than the formal tone of some older American English translations of classical verse.[2] Lombardo designs his translations to be performed orally, as they were in ancient Greece. He also performs the poems, and has recorded them as audio books. In performance he also likes to play the drums, much like Ezra Pound.[3]

  1. ^ Kansas Zen Center
  2. ^ Mendelsohn, Daniel (1997-07-20). "Yo, Achilles". New York Times. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
  3. ^ Codrescu, Andrei (December 2006). "Driving over the wine-red hills with Homer on tape". Retrieved 2009-02-16.