Avi Sharon Explained

Avi Sharon
Nationality:	American
Education:	Emory University Boston University (PhD)
Awards:	Harold Morton Landon Translation Award (2009)
Children:	2

Avi Sharon is a professor of classics, translator and consultant.

Life

He graduated from Emory University, and Boston University, with a Ph.D. in classics, where he studied under Donald Carne-Ross and William Arrowsmith.

His work has appeared in Arion,^[1] Partisan Review, Waves,^[2] Journal of Modern Greek Studies,^[3] Kenyon Review,^[4] Yale Review,^[5] and International Quarterly.

He works on Wall Street,^[6] and lives in Brooklyn, with his wife and two sons.^[7]

Awards

• 1996 Alexander S. Onassis Fellowship for scholars of Greek
• 2009 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
• 2012 The Hellenic Foundation for Culture Translation Prize (Greek)^[8]

Works

• Book: Drama as Opera: The Musical Theater of Classical Athens. Boston University. 1994 .
• Book: A Hebrew Lament. https://books.google.com/books?id=6hw9WdSHmP0C&q=Avi+Sharon&pg=PA43. Dialogos: Hellenic Studies Review. Michael Silk . David Ricks. Taylor & Francis. 2000. 978-0-7146-4478-3 .

Translations

• Book: Selected Poems. Constantine P. Cavafy . Penguin Group USA. 2008. 978-0-14-118561-3. Avi Sharon .
• Book: Plato's symposium. Focus. 1998. 978-0-941051-56-9. Avi Sharon. Plato .

Anthologies

• Book: Helen. https://books.google.com/books?id=d8qTLjwGw8gC&q=Avi+Sharon&pg=PA219. Gods and mortals: modern poems on classical myths. Nina Kossman . Oxford University Press US. 2001. 978-0-19-513341-7 .

Criticism

• Cressida Among the Greeks. March 15, 2002. Greekworks. June 21, 2009. August 28, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100828215915/http://www.greekworks.com/content/index.php/weblog/extended/cressida_among_the_greeks/. dead.

Reviews

Sharon has achieved an excellent balance, and certainly more so than other editors. More advanced and extensive bibliographies, introductions and/or notes, however, are to be found in the Oxford World's Classics edition of Waterfield, in the SUNY edition of Cobb, and in the Hackett edition. The translation also compares well to its competitors....^[9]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics . 2009-06-21 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091022064457/http://www.bu.edu/arion/Volume%2016/16.2/16.2.html . 2009-10-22 .
2. Web site: Waves Content . 2009-06-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090419075536/http://www.catranslation.org/Translation/Issues/Waves/w_content.html . 2009-04-19 . dead .
3. Sharon . Avi . The Drama of Quality: Selected Essays (review) . Journal of Modern Greek Studies . 2001 . 19 . 1 . 173–178 . 10.1353/mgs.2001.0010 . 143890679 . .
4. Web site: The Kenyon Review . 2009-06-21 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081122054926/http://www.kenyonreview.org/issues/winter99/index.php . 2008-11-22 .
5. Sharon . Avi . Turning Point: A Year in the Seferis‐Katsimbalis Correspondence . The Yale Review . January 2000 . 88 . 1 . 44–62 . 10.1111/0044-0124.00361 .
6. https://web.archive.org/web/20121025211648/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-145268106.html "BDS Consulting Group, New York, has merged with The Clearview Group. (Flash! Frozen)"
7. Web site: Archived copy . 2009-06-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100407115603/http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20823 . 2010-04-07 . dead .
8. Web site: Translation Prize Winners Announced | Society of Authors - Protecting the rights and furthering the interests of authors . 2013-07-22 . usurped . https://web.archive.org/web/20130927003942/http://www.societyofauthors.net/soa-news/translation-prize-winners-announced . 2013-09-27 .
9. Avi Sharon (trans.), Plato's Symposium. Focus Philosophical Library. . Beau David Case. Bryn Mawr Classical Review . 1999-03-06 .