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Professor Stanley Lombardo reads from his translation of the Iliad.
"The Contemporary Relevance of the Iliad"
Stanley F. "Stan" Lombardo (alias Hae Kwang; 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. 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.
Video Title: Roundtable Discussion on Homer's "The Odyssey" featuring Christopher Hitchens. Source: C-SPAN's Book TV. Date Published: July 23, 2026. Description:
In 2000, C-SPAN's Book TV hosted Professor Lombardo and other panelists to discuss his latest translation of Homer's Odyssey and talked about the enduring importance of the work. During the course of the discussion Mr. Lombardo read passages in English and Greek and panelists responded to viewer telephone calls and electronic mail.
