Sarah Elizabeth Ruden is an American writer of poetry, essays, translations of Classic literature, and popularizations of Biblical philology, religious criticism and interpretation.
Books in order of publication:
Poetry
Other Places. William Waterman Publications. 1995. (Awarded the 1996 Central News Agency Literary Award)
Translations
Petronius (2000). The Satyricon of Petronius: A New Translation with Topical Commentaries (trans.). Hackett.
Aristophanes (2003). Aristophanes: Lysistrata, Translated, with Notes and Topical Commentaries (trans.). Hackett.
Homer (2005). The Homeric Hymns (trans.). Hackett.
Virgil (2008). The Aeneid: Vergil (trans.). Yale Univ. Press. Revised and expanded (Yale Univ. Press, 2021).
Apuleius (2012). The Golden Ass (trans.). Yale Univ. Press.
Aeschylus (2016). The Oresteia, in The Greek Plays (ed. Mary Lefkowitz and James Romm). Modern Library.
Augustine (2017). Confessions (trans.). Modern Library.
Plato (2015). Hippias Minor or The Art of Cunning: A new translation of Plato’s most controversial dialogue (trans.). With introduction and artwork by Paul Chan; essay by Richard Fletcher. Badlands Unlimited and the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art.
Anonymous (2021). The Gospels (trans.) Modern Library.
Biblical interpretation
Paul Among the People: The Apostle Reinterpreted and Reimagined in His Own Time. Image. 2011.
The Face of Water: A Translator on Beauty and Meaning in the Bible. Pantheon. 2017.
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