Stanley Lombardo

Stanley F. "Stan" Lombardo (alias Hae Kwang; born June 19, 1943) is an American Classicist, and former professor of Classics at the University of Kansas.

He is best known for his translations of the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid (published by the Hackett Publishing Company). The style of his translations is a more vernacular one, emphasizing conversational English rather than the formal tone of some older American English translations of classical verse. Lombardo designs his translations to be performed orally, as they were in ancient Greece. He also performs the poems, and has recorded them as audio books. In performance he also likes to play the drums, much like Ezra Pound.

Biography
Of Italian ancestry, Lombardo is a native of New Orleans. He has a BA from Loyola University in New Orleans, an MA from Tulane University, and a PhD from the University of Texas (1976). In 1976 he joined the faculty at the University of Kansas, where he served as department chair for fifteen years and taught Greek and Latin at all levels, as well as general courses on Greek literature and culture. He was appointed University of Kansas Honors Program director in 2004.

Lombardo is a Zen master in the Kwan Um School of Zen. Along with his wife, Judith Roitman, who is a retired professor of mathematics at the University of Kansas and a published poet, he was a founding member of the Kansas Zen Center.

Audiobooks and Abridgements

 * The Essential Homer (2000) Hackett Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-87220-540-6
 * The Essential Iliad (2000) Hackett Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-87220-542-0
 * Iliad (2006) (Audiobook) Parmenides Publishing. ISBN 978-1-930972-08-7
 * Odyssey (2006) (Audiobook) Parmenides Publishing. ISBN 978-1-930972-06-3
 * The Essential Iliad (2006) (Audiobook) Parmenides Publishing. ISBN 978-1-930972-12-4
 * The Essential Homer (2006) (Audiobook) Parmenides Publishing. ISBN 978-1-930972-10-0
 * The Essential Aeneid (2006) Hackett Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-87220-791-2
 * The Essential Odyssey (2007) Hackett Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-87220-899-5
 * The Essential Metamorphoses (2011) Hackett Publishing Company. ISBN 978-1-60384-624-0