Translators and the Sacred in Western Late Antiquity: Some Reflections

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Published: May 6, 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2023.15.03
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Late Antiquity, Translation, Timaeus, Scriptures

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Julieta Cardigni
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, CONICET

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The aim of this paper is to reflect on the translation approach of two Latin authors of Late Antiquity, based on a series of their paratexts: Jerome (Ad Pammachium de optimo genere interpretandi, 57) and Calcidius (Introductory Epistle and preface of the Commentarius in Timaeum). Since both are dedicated to the translation of texts that could be considered “sacred” in Late Antiquity (the Bible, Plato’s Timaeus), their translation practices are mainly met with a tension between the poles of “tradition” and “innovation”, which can be re-read from a Translation Studies’ perspective through the categories of “fidelity” and “freedom” / “equivalence”. In short, what is at stake is the construction of discursive and moral authority (auctoritas), which guarantees the effectiveness of its task, on texts that project a particular character: the sacred.

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Cardigni, J. (2023). Translators and the Sacred in Western Late Antiquity: Some Reflections. MonTI. Monographs in Translation and Interpreting, (15), 102–119. https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2023.15.03
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Julieta Cardigni, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, CONICET

Julieta Cardigni is a Doctor in Literature (Classical Languages) from Universidad de Buenos Aires, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses. She is an Adjunct Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) and a Professor at Universidad Pedagógica Nacional and in the doctoral programme of Universidad Nacional del Sur. He coordinates the Area of Late Antique Studies at the Institute of Classical Philology of the UBA. She was a Visiting Scholar at Princeton University on a Fulbright Scholarship (2016-2017) and a Fellow of the Hardt Foundation (2012) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD, 2020). He has published numerous articles in national and international specialized journals, and two books: El comentario como género tardoantiguo (Buenos Aires, 2013) and De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii o la farsa del discurso (Buenos Aires, 2019).

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