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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/142903| Title: | Rt Hon. John Hookham Frere’s Malta translation of Aristophanes plays |
| Authors: | Said, Ivan |
| Keywords: | Aristophanes -- Translations into English Greek drama (Comedy) -- Translations into English Frere, John Hookham, 1769-1846 -- Criticism and interpretation Classical literature -- Translations into English -- History and criticism Villa Frere (Pieta, Malta) Vassalli, Mikiel Anton, 1764-1829 Lewis, George Cornewall, Sir, 1806-1863 |
| Issue Date: | 2023 |
| Publisher: | Malta Classics Association |
| Citation: | Said, I. (2023). Rt Hon. John Hookham Frere’s Malta translation of Aristophanes plays. Melita Classica, 9, 90-111. |
| Abstract: | John Hookham Frere (1769–1846) was described as “one of the most influential members of Malta’s nineteenth century intellectual scene” and his sojourn in Malta between 1821 up to his death in 1846 “was marked by encyclopaedic intellectual activity” whose literary legacy is still with us today. It was during his stay here, or rather, thanks to his stay here, as one of his Maltese biographers put it, that he completed four Greek-to-English translations of Aristophanes’ comedies in metrical verse, which he started while he was still in England, and several other translations of classical and Biblical excerpts from the original languages. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/142903 |
| ISBN: | 9789918212491 |
| Appears in Collections: | Melita Classica : Volume 09 : 2023 |
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