TY  - JOUR
A1  - Borýsek, Martin
T1  - In search of Ovidian hebrew
BT  - a philological study of a lesser known modern hebrew translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses
JF  - Acta Universitatis Carolinae : AUC
N2  - This paper focuses on the first substantial translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses into modern Hebrew, whose author was Yehoshua Friedman (1885–1934). The first part of the paper sets Friedman into the context of modern Hebrew classical philology and explores the character of his verse. The core of the text consists of three case studies of selected excerpts from Ovid’s story of Apollo and Daphne (Met. I, 456–465; 481–482; 545–552). Based on detailed linguistic and stylistic analysis of these texts, I argue that Friedman did not simply adopt a pre-existing linguistic register, but rather created an original Ovidian idiom that helped to win him lasting significance in the history of Hebrew translations from classical languages.
KW  - Ovid’s Metamorphoses
KW  - Yehoshua Friedman
KW  - modern Hebrew literature
KW  - classical translations
KW  - Apollo and Daphne
Y1  - 2022
UR  - https://karolinum.cz/casopis/auc-philologica/rocnik-2021/cislo-4/clanek-10183
U6  - https://doi.org/10.14712/24646830.2022.11
SN  - 0567-8269
SN  - 2464-6830
IS  - 4
SP  - 29
EP  - 56
PB  - Karolinum Press
CY  - Prag
ER  -