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Entry | Perikles'in Peloponnesos savaşı ölüleri için söylevi

Perikles'in Peloponnesos savaşı ölüleri için söylevi

Typology: Translation | Language: Turkish | Place of publication: Ankara | Publisher: Maarif Vekâleti | Year: 1943

Greek Text: no

Content: Pericles’ Funeral Oration

Suat Yakup Baydur (1912-1953), classicist, philologist, and translator. Baydur earned a PhD at the University of Heidelberg in 1942 with a dissertation on Sextus Empiricus under Eugen Fehrle. After returning to Turkey, he taught Latin at the Atatürk High School in Ankara and became involved in the state-sponsored translation movement of classical texts. In the 1940s he published translations of Greek authors, including Thucydides, Aristotle’s Athenaion Politeia, and Plato’s Cratylus, mainly through the journal Tercüme.

Translation of Thuc. 2.35-46 (Pericles' Funeral Oration). Published in the journal Tercüme Dergisi, nr. 17 (3).

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