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Award-winning translator gives dramatic reading of ‘The Odyssey’

Stanley Lombardo, award-winning translator and professor emeritus at the University of Kansas, gives a dramatic reading of the final portions of Homer’s “Odyssey” on March 23 at Lake Forest College’s Hotchkiss Hall, as part of the Lake Forest Literary Festival. Claire Esker/22nd Century Media
Students and faculty members crowd the Meyer Auditorium at Lake Forest College’s Hotchkiss Hall on March 23 to hear Stanley Lombardo perform the conclusion of “The Odyssey” and discuss alternate endings to the epic poem. Claire Esker/22nd Century Media

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Kyle Tyrrell, Freelance Reporter
2:37 pm PDT March 29, 2016

An overflow audience was rapt in Meyer Auditorium on March 23 at Lake Forest College as University of Kansas professor emeritus Stanley Lombardo, backlit and clad in shadows with a raspy voice, translated his rendition of Homer’s “The Odyssey.”

Lombardo’s dramatic show was part of Lake Forest College’s English Department’s offerings of dramatic readings for its students — and not just English majors. The Wednesday night event was part of the Lake Forest Literary Festival, which ran March 21-25 at the college.

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