Avi Sharon

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, Partisan Review, Waves, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Kenyon Review, Yale Review, and International Quarterly.

He works on Wall Street, and lives in Brooklyn, with his wife and two sons.

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)

Works

• Drama as Opera: The Musical Theater of Classical Athens. Boston University. 1994.
• "A Hebrew Lament". Dialogos: Hellenic Studies Review. Taylor & Francis. 2000. ISBN 978-0-7146-4478-3. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)

Translations

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

Anthologies

• "Helen". Gods and mortals: modern poems on classical myths. Oxford University Press US. 2001. ISBN 978-0-19-513341-7. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)

Criticism

• "Cressida Among the Greeks". greekworks. March 15, 2002.

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....