Avi Sharon is a professor of classics, translator and consultant.
Life
He graduated from
Emory University
Emory University is a private university, private research university in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It was founded in 1836 as Emory College by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory. Its main campu ...
, and
Boston University
Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodism, Methodists with its original campus in Newbury (town), Vermont, Newbur ...
, with a Ph.D. in classics, where he studied under
Donald Carne-Ross and
William Arrowsmith
William Ayres Arrowsmith (April 13, 1924 – February 21, 1992) was an American classicist, academic, and translator.
Life
Born in Orange, New Jersey, the son of Walter Weed Arrowsmith and Dorothy (Ayres) Arrowsmith, William grew up in Wellesle ...
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His work has appeared in ''Arion'', ''Partisan Review'', ''Waves'', ''Journal of Modern Greek Studies'', ''Kenyon Review'', ''Yale Review'', and ''International Quarterly''.
He works on Wall Street, and lives in
Brooklyn
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, with his wife and two sons.
Awards
* 1996 Alexander S. Onassis Fellowship for scholars of Greek
* 2009
Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
* 2012 The Hellenic Foundation for Culture Translation Prize (Greek)
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Reviews
Sharon has achieved an excellent balance, and certainly more so than other editors. More advanced and extensive bibliographies, introductions and/or notes, however, are to be found in the Oxford ''World's Classics'' edition of Waterfield, in the SUNY edition of Cobb, and in the Hackett edition. The translation also compares well to its competitors....
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American male poets
Emory University alumni
Boston University alumni
Greek–English translators