The Diversity of Characters, Attitudes, and Messages through Different Translations

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English

 

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July 7, 2014

 

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For example, in comparing the first lines of both translations, it was noticed that the Fitts and Fitzgerald's Translation referred to the public as, "generations of the living in the line of Kadmos, nursed at his ancient hearth" (F & F,) while the translators of Luci Berkowitz and Theodore F. Brunner's Translation referred to the public as simply, "the sons of the ancient house of Cadmus" (LB & TB...
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Brunner's Translation referred to the public as simply, "the sons of the ancient house of Cadmus" (LB & TB.) The first translation offered much more information and description of the population of Thebes. Also, the phrase "nursed at his? hearth" requires the reader to be of a higher education because "hearth" is not in the everyday vocabulary of just anyone...
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