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He whakamāori i te reo Kariki o neherā

Kia ora koutou.

For those of you into te reo Māori and translation, there is a plenary talk at the 2020 Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies on 31 January that might interest you.  This is a public event!

Associate Professor Simon Perris: Te Iriata and the Iliad: On translating Homer into Māori. 

Friday 31 January 2020, St David Lecture Theatre, 9am.

“This talk concerns a collaborative and creative research project being undertaken by myself and my colleague Dr Karena Kelly (Te Kawa a Māui, Victoria University of Wellington). This nascent project is intended to produce a translation of (some of) Homer’s Iliad into te reo Māori – into Te Iriata. As far as we know, this is the first-ever direct translation of a non-biblical ancient Greek text into Māori.

“In this talk, I will introduce the project, describe our working methods, survey some of the challenges Dr Kelly and I have encountered, and address some of the central methodological, linguistic, and other issues at stake; I will also share some specific sections of the work to date, and address more broadly the idea of a classical tradition in Māori translation.​”

See ClassicsConferencePoster for all three public events from this conference.