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Translations of Virgil into Esperanto
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This chapter stands apart from the rest, since it discusses the translations of Virgil into Esperanto, an artificial international language invented in 1887 by Ludwig Zamenhof, a Jewish ophthalmologist in Poland. The translators of Virgil into Esperanto insisted on the importance of producing translations of great works of world literature so as to provide legitimacy to this new international language. Greatrex looks at the three verse translations of the Aeneid into Esperanto, specifically from Book 4, in order to demonstrate the importance of translation activity for Esperanto literature. However, these translations were, and remain, isolated from the translations of Virgil into other languages.
Title: Translations of Virgil into Esperanto
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This chapter stands apart from the rest, since it discusses the translations of Virgil into Esperanto, an artificial international language invented in 1887 by Ludwig Zamenhof, a Jewish ophthalmologist in Poland.
The translators of Virgil into Esperanto insisted on the importance of producing translations of great works of world literature so as to provide legitimacy to this new international language.
Greatrex looks at the three verse translations of the Aeneid into Esperanto, specifically from Book 4, in order to demonstrate the importance of translation activity for Esperanto literature.
However, these translations were, and remain, isolated from the translations of Virgil into other languages.
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