Jocasta's divine head: English with a foreign accent -- From the baked bricks: the poem of Gilgamesh -- The poem of Odysseus -- Robert Fitzgerald as translator: the Odyssey, the Iliad, and the Aeneid -- A mistaken ambition of exactness: Richmond Lattimore's Odyssey -- Structural translation: Christopher Logue's Patrocleia -- The gaiety of language: Bacchylides and the translation of Greek poetry -- Polygram: Pindar's Pythian 12 in translation -- The beastly house of Atreus -- Greek tragedy in modernist translation: H.D., Louis MacNeice, and Robert Lowell -- Introduction to Antigone -- The anthology transplanted -- Ekphrasis: lights in Santa Sophia from Paul the silentiary -- Horace in English -- Bibliography of the works of D.S. Carne-Ross -- Index of classical passages -- Index of translators