Stanley F. "Stan"Lombardo (aliasHae Kwang;^[1] born June 19, 1943) is an AmericanClassicist, and formerprofessor of Classics at theUniversity of Kansas.

He is best known for histranslations of theIliad, theOdyssey, and theAeneid (published by theHackett 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.^[2] Lombardo designs his translations to beperformed orally, as they were inancient Greece. He also performs the poems, and has recorded them as audio books. In performance he also likes to play the drums, much likeEzra Pound.^[3]

Of Italian ancestry, Lombardo is a native ofNew Orleans. He has a BA fromLoyola University in New Orleans, an MA fromTulane University, and a PhD from theUniversity of Texas (1976). In 1976 he joined the faculty at theUniversity of Kansas, where he served as department chair for fifteen years and taughtGreek andLatin at all levels, as well as general courses onGreek literature andculture. He was appointed University of Kansas Honors Program director in 2004.

Lombardo is aZen master in theKwan 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.^[4]

• Parmenides and Empedocles (1982) Grey Fox Press.ISBN 978-0-912516-66-0
• Sky Signs: Aratus' Phaenomena (1983) North Atlantic Books.ISBN 978-0-938190-15-8
• Callimachus: Hymns, Epigrams, Select Fragments, with Diane Rayor (1987) Johns Hopkins University Press.ISBN 978-0-8018-3281-9
• Plato: Protagoras (1992)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-0-87220-094-4
• Hesiod: Works and Days and Theogony (1993)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-0-87220-179-8
• Lao-Tzu: Tao Te Ching, with Stephen Addiss (1993)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-0-87220-232-0
• Homer: Iliad (1997)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 0-87220-352-2
• Homer: Odyssey (2000)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-0-87220-485-0
• Sappho: Poems and Fragments (2002)Hackett Publishing CompanyISBN 978-0-87220-591-8.Complete Poems and Fragments (2016)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-1-62466-467-0
• Virgil: Aeneid (2005)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-0-87220-732-5
• Abelard & Heloise: The Letters and Other Writings, with William Levitan and Barbara Thorburn (2007)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-0-87220-875-9
• Zen Source Book, with Stephen Addiss andJudith Roitman (2008) Hacket Publishing.ISBN 978-0-87220-909-1
• Dante: Inferno (2008)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-0-87220-917-6
• Ovid: Metamorphoses (2010)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-1-60384-308-9
• Statius: Achilleid (2015)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-1-62466-406-9
• Dante: Purgatorio (2016)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-1-62466-491-5
• Dante: Paradiso (2017)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-1-62466-590-5
• Horace: Odes & Carmen Saeculare (2018)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-1-62466-688-9
• Gilgamesh (2019)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-1-62466-772-5
• Bhagavad Gita (2019)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-1-62466-788-6
• Nonnus: Tales of Dionysus, with William Levitan and others (2022)University of Michigan Press.ISBN 978-0-47213-311-6
• Ovid: Heroides, with Melina McClure (2024)Hackett Publishing Company.ISBN 978-1-64792-189-7

• 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

• English translations of Homer § LombardoIl

• Younger, John."University of Kansas Classics Faculty". Archived fromthe original on 2006-09-06. Retrieved2007-01-21.
• Hedges, Chris.The Humbling of Odysseus. New York Times Book Review. July 9, 2000.

• Michael Leddy interviews Stanley Lombardo.Jacket Magazine. Jacket 21, February 2003.

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