Articles – Ad astra

ERASMUS: ‘GRACCULUS’ OR ‘GRAECULUS’?

April 10, 2018Articles, Latin, Res cvriosaNo Comments

In chapter 83 of the third book of his Poetices libri Septem, Scaliger launches a severe attack on Erasmus’s definition of a proverb, without even mentioning the name of the Dutch humanist: “grammatici, idest Donatus et is Gracculus qui Donati […]

Sirakova. Author, audience and literary purpose in translating ancient texts.

September 18, 2010March 28, 2018Articles, De rete, De traductione, EnglishNo Comments

POMOERIVM 3 (1998) ISSN 0945-2354 Yoana Sirakova (Sofia) AUTHOR, AUDIENCE AND LITERARY PURPOSE IN TRANSLATING ANCIENT TEXTS The theoretical research of translating process deals with one important problem: the problem of the nature of the translation act. Translation is a […]