In the Teeth of the Gale
A.D. Nuttall, 16 November 1995
The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation
edited by Adrian Poole and Jeremy Maule.
Oxford, 606 pp., £19.99, October 1995,0 19 214209 7 Show More
edited by Adrian Poole and Jeremy Maule.
Oxford, 606 pp., £19.99, October 1995,
“... translators of the period to bowdlerise and sanitise, so that Aristophanes sounds like Gilbert and Sullivan in the metrically exuberant, sexually discreet translation of Benjamin Bickley Rogers. But the under-presence of the ancient freedom is everywhere, for those with ears to hear. The charge of not-quite-perfectly-concealed, intense homoerotic emotion in ... ”