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Translation Criticism in Ancient Rome. Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights

Publication date: 01.01.1970

Przekładaniec, Issues in English, Special Issue 2013 – Selection from the Archives, pp. 71-86

https://doi.org/10.4467/16891864ePC.13.038.1455

Authors

Katarzyna Ochman
University of Wrocław, plac Uniwersytecki 1, 50-137 Wrocław, Poland
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Translators

Jan Rybicki

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Translation Criticism in Ancient Rome. Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights

Abstract

We owe many aspects of Western culture to the Greeks; yet it was the Romans
who took the fi rst steps in the fi eld of translation. This article presents a selection of
characteristics of translation methods used by the Ancients and, more particularly, their
broad understanding of translation as exemplifi ed by Aulus Gellius, Roman writer of
the second century CE.

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Information: Przekładaniec, Issues in English, Special Issue 2013 – Selection from the Archives, pp. 71-86

Article type: Original article

Titles:

Polish:

Translation Criticism in Ancient Rome. Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights

English:

Translation Criticism in Ancient Rome. Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights

Authors

University of Wrocław, plac Uniwersytecki 1, 50-137 Wrocław, Poland

Translators

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Published at: 01.01.1970

Article status: Open

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