September 29, 1999

KU PROFESSOR WINS AWARD FOR 'ILIAD' TRANSLATION

LAWRENCE -- The Hall Center for the Humanities at the University of Kansas recently announced that Stanley Lombardo, professor of classics at KU, has won the 1999 Byron Caldwell Smith Award for his translation of Homer's "Iliad."

The $2,000 award was established in 1938 by Kate Stephens, a former KU student and its first woman professor, who named the award after the KU professor who taught her to love Greek language and literature.

Lombardo's other works include translations of Taoist poetry of the Tao Te Ching, with calligrapher Steven Addiss, and a translation of the "Odyssey" to be published this spring.

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