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A humanities degree between two covers. Brilliant.a 'David Dubal, The Juilliard School
Jeffrey Duban is one of the relatively few scholars and artists standing athwart the flood of modernism and yelling stop...a 'Mark Helprin, author, A Kingdom Far and Clear: The Complete Swan Lake Trilogy
A half-century ago Duban's views on the translation of Greek and Latin poetry would have been non-controversial. Now they may be as incendiary as they are desperately needed.a 'Victor Davis Hanson, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Jeffrey Duban's The Lesbian Lyre is unique.... The work is magisterial in its root sense: we enjoy good teaching.a 'William Nethercut, Professor of Classics, University of Texas, Austin
The Lesbian Lyre offers a bracing and very welcome challenge to the 20th century dominance of 'personal voice' translations of Greek lyric, Sappho in particular.a 'Niall Slater, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Latin and Greek, Emory University, Atlanta
...Taken as a whole, the book contains a feast of sound scholarship and challenging critical judgment.a 'Nicholas Ostler, author, Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin