Contrastive Linguistic and Cultural Backgrounds of the Two Latin Translators of the Life of Antony

Autor(en)

Aleksandar Andjelovic, György Geréby

Abstrakt

The paper focuses on the direct Bible quotations that the anonymous translator and Evagrius of Antioch rendered from Greek into Latin as part of their versions of the Life of Antony, each in his own way. Did the anonymous translator use any of the existing fourth-century Latin translations of the Bible to translate the biblical quotations he found in the Greek original, or did he translate them himself, without recourse to translations already available? Which version of the Bible did he use when translating the biblical quotations, in Latin or in Greek? What does the anonymous translator’s “literal” and “low-register” style tell us about the translator? Was his non-idiomatic Latin a choice, “Christian” Latin, or rather a limitation in translating into Latin as his target language? On the other hand, what does Evagrius’ “high” and stylistically sophisticated and improved Latin tell us about Evagrius? Whom does he write for, and what do his readers expect from him? This paper aims at answering these questions.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Geschichte

Journal

Clotho

Band

3

Seiten

5-28

Anzahl der Seiten

24

ISSN

2670-6210

DOI

https://doi.org/10.4312/clotho.3.2.5-28

Publikationsdatum

12-2021

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

602024 Klassische Philologie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

History, Language and Linguistics, Classics, Literature and Literary Theory

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/contrastive-linguistic-and-cultural-backgrounds-of-the-two-latin-translators-of-the-life-of-antony(d50f3f36-b8c3-4cab-adc3-ec40e861b130).html