Beyond Greek

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By Dennis Feeney

Published March 25, 2016

Modern ideas about translation, literature, history, and myth were largely shaped by the Romans, asserts professor of Latin Denis Feeney in Beyond Greek: The Beginnings of Latin Literature. He explores how Roman citizens of Greek origin began the process of translating Greek texts into Latin, something rarely done before in that region.

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