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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.
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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Kelly says that genuine feeling expressed in the poems is not enough to overcome the lack of structure and form. Ending his critique, he states that black poets would have been better served by an anthology that focused on quality rather than themes, calling Poems of Black Africa "provocative and embarrassing". [4]
Lattimore matched the dactylic hexameter of the original Homeric text. [1] Earlier translations favoured changing the poetic metre into a staple of the target language, a decision made Lattimore's contemporary Robert Fitzgerald for his translation. [2] Lattimore's translation is known for its use of epithets but he did excise many of them. [3]
Lattimore was a Fellow of the Academy of American Poets, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Philological Association, and the Archaeological Institute of America, as well as a Fellow of the American Academy at Rome and an Honorary Student at Christ Church, Oxford.
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.