English scholars translate Greek into Latin. Thomas More's and William Lily's Progymnasmata

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other grade: 10 University of Bonn (Anglistik Amerikanistik und Keltologie) course: The English Renaissance language: English abstract: The paper analyses five epigrams in Thomas More's and William Lily's work Progymnasmata and elaborates on the translation techniques used by the two scholars with reference to their adaptation from the Greek original word choice syntactic preferences metrical qualities and other features.