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William Arrowsmith (1924–1992)

Author of Six Modern Italian Novellas

15+ Works 83 Members 2 Reviews

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Includes the names: William Arrowsmith, Ed. William Arrowsmith, editor William Arrowsmith

Works by William Arrowsmith

Six Modern Italian Novellas (1964) — Editor — 25 copies

Craft and Context of Translation (1961) 23 copies

Antonioni: The Poet of Images (1995) 21 copies

Nietzsche on classics and classicists (part iii) 3 copies

Four Plays 1 copy

The Hudson Review (1957) 1 copy

Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics. New series, Vol. 1 No. 1 (Spring 1973); Vol. 1 No. 2 (1973/4). 3rd… — Editor — 1 copy

Reden der Indianerhäuptlinge I. Meine Worte sind wie Sterne, sie gehen nicht unter (1984) 1 copy

How Can One SellThe Air? Chief Seattle's Vision 1 copy

Greek tragedies (Agamemnon,Prometheus Bond, Oedipus the King, Antigone, Medea, The Bacchae) 1 copy

Greek Tragedies 3: Aeschylus: The Eumenides; Sophocles: Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus; Euripides: The Bacchae,… 1 copy

Nietzsche: notes for "We Philologists" 1 copy

DER GROSSE GEIST SPRICHT * Reden beruhmter Indianerhäuptlinge 1 copy

Der Große Geist spricht. Reden berühmter Indianerhäuptlinge 1 copy

Euripides Helen 1 copy

Associated Works

The Satyricon (0001) — Translator, some editions — 3,507 copies

Medea [in Translation] (0431) — Introduction, some editions — 2,931 copies

Lysistrata (0411) — Editor, some editions — 2,927 copies

Electra, The Phoenician Women, The Bacchae (0408) — Translator, some editions — 1,277 copies

The Clouds (0423) — Translator, some editions — 817 copies

Alcestis (0438) — Translator, some editions; Translator, some editions — 761 copies

4 Plays: Clouds / Birds / Lysistrata / Frogs (1984) — Translator, some editions — 749 copies

Euripides III: Hecuba, Andromache, The Trojan Women, Ion (The Complete Greek Tragedies) (Vol 5) (1958) — Translator, some editions — 670 copies

The Birds [in translation] (0425) — Translator, some editions — 592 copies

Euripides IV: Rhesus / The Suppliant Women / Orestes / Iphigenia in Aulis (The Complete Greek Tragedies) (Vol 6) (0415) — Translator, some editions — 500 copies

4 Plays: Cyclops / Helen / Heracles / Iphigenia in Tauris (0438) — Translator, some editions — 426 copies

Iphigenia in Tauris (0414) — Editor's Foreword, some editions — 371 copies

Cuttlefish Bones: 1920-1927 (1966) — Translator, some editions — 320 copies

Dialogues with Leucò (1947) — Translator, some editions — 305 copies

4 Plays: Acharnians / Lysistrata / Frogs / Assembly-Women (1969) — Editor, some editions — 190 copies

60 Years of American Poetry (1996) — Contributor — 28 copies

A Mirror for Modern Scholars: Essays in Methods of Research In Literature (1966) — Contributor — 11 copies

Twentieth century interpretations of Euripides' Alcestis; a collection of critical essays (1968) — Contributor — 11 copies

Thetis and Achilles: Homer, Iliad xviii, 1-147, tr. William Arrowsmith, Texas Quarterly reprint 1 copy

Antaeus No. 23, Autumn 1976 — Translator — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Legal name: Arrowsmith, William Ayres
Birthdate: 1924-04-13
Date of death: 1992-02-21
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Orange, New Jersey, USA
Place of death: Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
Places of residence: Orange, New Jersey, USA (birth)
Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA
Brookline, Massachusetts, USA (death)
Education: Princeton University
University of Oxford
Occupations: scholar
translator
Organizations: University of Texas at Austin
Boston University
Awards and honors: American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1978)
Fellow of the American Academy in Rome (1957)
Short biography: Married to Jean Arrowsmith, with two daughters, Beth and Nancy.

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Six Modern Italian Novellas by William Arrowsmith

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Works: 15
Also by: 20
Members: 83
Popularity: #218,811
Rating: 3.8

Reviews: 2
ISBNs: 4
Languages: 1

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