How much our taste different from the ancient Greeks Neoclassical translations and productions of Sophocles' Antigone during the nineteenth century University of Antwerp
The early nineteenth century is the focus of this case-study on the reception of Greek drama in the Low Countries. Its central question concerns the cultural distance between the original plays and their modern translators. The essay argues that the question of translating the ancient authors 'faithfully' first emerged at the time when the Greek plays were also for the first time being produced on the modern stage. Two novel research instruments ...