Translation
Daniel L. King
This chapter aims to offer an overview both of the generic scope translational efforts late antiquity and variety linguistic communities that began at time partake traditions classical antiquity. The term “translation” is here restricted textual transfer as such tends focus on literary rather than non-literary side subject. surveys antique translations genre-by-genre in order identify key themes motivations process reception literature, asking what extent these were themselves part formation a new distinctive literature areas covered are philosophy, medicine, rhetoric grammar, law, poetry, prose fiction, scripture, parabiblical texts, theology.