Don't try to cut any deals with me, Hector. Do lions make p… - Stanley Lombardo

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Don't try to cut any deals with me, Hector.
Do lions make peace treaties with men?
Do wolves and lambs agree to get along?

Stanley Lombardo

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About Stanley Lombardo

Stanley F. "Stan" Lombardo (alias Hae Kwang; born June 19, 1943) is an American Classicist, and former professor of Classics at the University of Kansas. He is best known for his translations of the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid. The style of his translations is a more vernacular one, emphasizing conversational English rather than the formal tone of some older American English translations of classical verse. Lombardo designs his translations to be performed orally, as they were in ancient Greece. He also performs the poems, and has recorded them as audio books. In performance he also likes to play the drums, much like Ezra Pound.

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I have borne what no man
Who has walked this earth has ever yet borne.
I have kissed the hand of the man who killed my son.

It was glorious to see—if your heart were iron,
And you could keep from grieving at all the pain.

And for yourself, may the gods grant you
Your heart's desire, a husband and a home,
And the blessing of a harmonious life.
For nothing is greater or finer than this,
When a man and woman live together
With one heart and mind, bringing joy
To their friends and grief to their foes.

Don't try to cut any deals with me, Hector. Do lions make peace treaties with men? Do wolves and lambs agree to get along? - Stanley Lombardo

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