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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 March 2019
      11 April 2019
      ISBN:
      9781108564007
      9781108473934
      9781108462990
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108564007
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.53kg, 274 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.409kg, 280 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Classical Studies, Classical Literature
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    This book explores the miscommunications of the prophet Cassandra - cursed to prophesy the truth but never to be understood until too late - in Greek and Latin poetry. Using insights from the field of translation studies, the book focuses on the dialogic interactions that take place between the articulation and the realization of Cassandra's prophecies in five canonical ancient texts, stretching from Aeschylus' to Seneca's Agamemnon. These interactions are dogged by confusion and misunderstanding, but they also show a range of interested parties engaged in creatively 'translating' meaning for themselves from Cassandra's ostensibly nonsensical voice. Moreover, as the figure of Cassandra is translated from one literary work into another, including into the Sibyl of Virgil's Aeneid, her story of tragic communicative disability develops into an optimistic metaphor for literary canon-formation. Cassandra invites us to reconsider the status and value of even the most riddling of female prophets in ancient poetry.

    Reviews

    '… an exceptionally detailed and minutely researched text which explores how the figure of Cassandra is used to effect within the texts it examines … Yet the argument of the study remains clear throughout and will encourage its reader to re-examine all that they know of Cassandra, seeking out texts with which they are unfamiliar; a successful result for any academic study.'

    Anactoria Clarke Source: Classics For All

    ‘… this rich monograph provides a multifaceted view of Cassandra from Aeschylus to Seneca that stresses again and again Cassandra’s own polyvalence as a figure of translation.’

    Christopher Trinacty Source: Classical Philology

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