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Owen Lattimore (July 29, 1900 – May 31, 1989) was an American Orientalist and writer. He was an influential scholar of China and Central Asia, especially Mongolia.Although he never earned a college degree, [1] in the 1930s he was editor of Pacific Affairs, a journal published by the Institute of Pacific Relations, and taught at Johns Hopkins University from 1938 to 1963.
Richmond Alexander Lattimore (May 6, 1906 – February 26, 1984) was an American poet and classicist known for his translations of the Greek classics, especially his versions of the Iliad and Odyssey.
Lattimore matched the dactylic hexameter of the original Homeric text; [1] it is regarded as a generally faithful line-for-line translation. [2] Previous translations favoured changing the poetic metre into a metre regularly used in the target language, a decision made by Lattimore's contemporary Robert Fitzgerald for his translation. [3]
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Owen Lattimore (1900–1989), American educator, author and target of Sen. Joseph McCarthy Eleanor Frances Lattimore (1904–1986), American author and illustrator of children's books Richmond Lattimore (1906–1984), American poet and translator of the Iliad and Odyssey
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African poetry encompasses a wide variety of traditions arising from Africa's 55 countries and from evolving trends within different literary genres.The field is complex, primarily because of Africa's original linguistic and cultural diversity and partly because of the effects of slavery and colonisation, the believe in religion and social life which resulted in English, Portuguese and French ...
The Lattimores' two older children, Katharine and Owen, were born in the Washington, D. C. area; the three younger children, Isabel, Eleanor, and Richmond ("Dick") were born in China. Eleanor Frances Lattimore came to the United States in 1920 [1] after her father became a professor of Chinese Studies at Dartmouth College.