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Peter Green is an outstanding translator.
—Susan Treggiari, Stanford University
Peter Green
Renowned translator, historian, and writer Peter Green is Dougherty Centennial Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Texas–Austin and professor at the University of Iowa. He has published translations from classical and modern Greek, Latin, Italian, and French, including translations of Juvenal, Ovid, Catullus, Apollonios, and Yannis Ritsos. He is the author of an acclaimed biography of Alexander the Great, among other works of nonfiction, and has also published his own poetry and fiction, including the novels The Sword of Pleasure and The Laughter of Aphrodite.
Zigzag through the Bitter Orange Trees by Ersi Sotiropoulos
an interview with Peter
Peter at the New York Review of Books