David Grene

David Grene (13 April 1913 – 10 September 2002) was an Irish-American professor of classics at the University of Chicago from 1937 until his death. He was a co-founder of the Committee on Social Thought and is best known for his translations of ancient Greek literature. Quotes The temptation to a modern translator in such a matter is either to cut or to substitute a kind of poetry that is more acceptable. But Aeschylus was like that, and perhaps we ought to settle for the strangeness and roughness of a literal rendering.There was a creative poet there whose images and metaphors were his own and no one else’s, and if we brood over them even in their bare bones we may learn more about poetry than by trying to make them over in our own terms. "Aeschylus. Diminished" [Review of Robert Lowell’s translation of Aeschylus’s Oresteia] in The New York Times, Sunday Book Review (8 April 1979), p. 43 External links Category:1913 births Category:2002 deaths Category:Academics from the United States Category:University of Chicago faculty Category:Classical scholars