1961- “Madam Bovari” by Flober

1964- “The Decameron” by Bocacho

He also translated “Don Qicote”by Servantes

1968- he was nominated for the state prize of Ukraine named after Shevchenko

1988- prize after Ryl’skyi for his translation of “Faust” by Gete and “Decameron”

Lukash is also known for his contribution to the Ukr lexicography.

He is known to have collected a huge number of index cards containing Ukr. words and idioms of all possible registers. Recently, the dictionary “Phraseology of Lukash’s tr”(2002) has come out, compiled by T.Tsymbaliuk and O.Skopnenko. In his translations he used a lot of Ukr realia, idioms, folklore borrowings. Lukash believed that proof of richness of any language is its synonymic diversity. He wanted to collect as many synonyms as possible. The distinctive feature of his creative style was his use of paired synonyms. Lukash used a lot of derivational means of lang. The most distinctive feature of Lukash’stechnique is his creative approach. He used the domestication to his translations.

12. Ancient literature in the translations by Borys Ten and a. Sodomora

Borys Ten (Mykola Khomychevskyi) (1897—1983)

One of the leading translators of the middle and late 20th century, and he contributed greatly to the enrichment of Ukrainian cultural expression and the Ukrainian lexicon.

Was born in a village Derman (Rivne region). The pseudonym Borys Ten is derived from Borysten, the ancient name of the Dnipro Rive. The son of an Orthodox priest, he managed to survive Stalin’s GULAGs and Nazi concentration camps. Ten`s family was highly educated, fond of literature, music, and theater, and these tendencies can be observed in Ten’s own life.

In 1913 his parents moved to Zhytomyr.

In 1918 he enrolled in a branch of the Institute of Public Education (INO), which had opened in Zhytomyr.

In 1920 Ten became actively involved in the movement to establish the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAPTs) and was one of the main organizers of the Zhytomyr branch of this church.

In 1923he was ordained a priest and experienced the first persecutions carried out by the Soviet authorities. He was not permitted to defend his diploma paper at the institute and left without a diploma. Ten was arrested and sentenced to six months’ probation.

In 1924 he moved to Kyiv, where he held the position of archdeacon at St. Sophia’s Cathedral and was elected second deputy- head of the All-Ukrainian Orthodox Church Council.

In Kyiv he developed close ties with the Neoclassicist poets, including Mykola Zerov and Maksym Rylskyi. He did various editorial and translation jobs for the Knyhospilka and Siaivo publishing houses and the State Publishing House of Ukraine. He translated texts for the vocal repertoire of the Kyiv Philharmonic Society, the opera theater, “the Dumka Choir”, and the Lysenko Institute of Music and Drama.

In 1927 he began publishing articles, literary translations, and religious poems in the journal “Tserkva i zhyttia” (Church and Life), founded by the UAPTs.

In 1929 Ten was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in forced labor camps. He was sent to the Far East, where he got married. His wife, Apollinaria (Nara) Kovalchuk, a graduate of the Lysenko Institute whom he had met in Kyiv, joined him in 1931.

During World War II he was mobilized into the Red Army. In late 1945 he finally returned to Zhytomyr. Later, he worked at the Zhytomyr Pedagogical Institute and was in charge of amateur performances. He also worked in a music college and taught Latin at the Zhytomyr Foreign Languages Institute.

During the postwar period Ten focused on Ukrainian translations of world classics, above all, Greek classical literature. He translated Greek dramas, the plays of William Shakespeare, and Polish poets. But his real feat was his translations of the Illiad and the Odyssey on which he worked for many years. To this day they are considered the finest Slavic translations of Homer.

In his last years Ten, who belonged to the Writers’ Union of the USSR, made a considerable contribution to the development of the Zhytomyr branch of this literary organization and the city’s cultural life in general.

Translations from old Greek

• Aeschylus “Prometheus Unbound” «Прометей закутий» (1949)

• Homer's “Odyssey”(1963)and “Illiad”(1977)

• Aristophanes` “The Clouds”, “Lysistrata”, “The Frogs” (1956) (The translations of “The Clouds” and “The Frogs” were done by a Ukrainian poet Volodymyr Svidzynskyi who was a person of non-grata in USSR. Borys Ten edited these translations).

• Aristotle`s “Poetics” (1967)

• Sophocles` “Antigone” (1981), “Oedipus The King” (Цар Едіп)

• Euripides “Medea”

1982 – a collection of translation from Greek “Old Greek Tragedy” ("Давньогрецька трагедія") was edited.

From German - Friedrich Schiller` “Robbers” (1952), “William Tell”(1964)

From English - William Shakespeare`s “Richard III” (1952), “Antonius and Cleopatra”

From French – “Torquemada” by Hugo; From Polish – Adam Mickievich, Yu. Slovatskyi.

Works on theory of translation, Ukrainian language culture:

«Нотатки про ритміку гекзаметра» (1967)

«Біля кастальських джерел» (1968)

«Називаймо, як зве народ» (1974)

Andriy Sodomora

Was born December 1, 1937 in the villageVyriv (Lviv region). Candidate of Philological Studies, professor of classical philology at Lviv National University of I. Franko.

Translated works from Greek by Menander, Aristophanes, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides;

Latin works of Horace, Ovid, Lucretius, Seneca, Roman elegiac poets;

Author of prosaic works:

«Жива античність» ("Live Antiquity")

«Наодинці зі словом» ("Alone with the word")

«Під чужою тінню» ("Under an alien shadow")

«Сивий вітер» ("Gray Wind")

«Лініями долі» ("The lines of fate")

«Студії одного вірша» (“A Poem Study”)

poetic collection «Наодинці зі Львовом» ("Alone with Lviv")

Translations:

• Horace. Works (1982)

• Ovidius “Metamorphoses” (1985)

• Titus Lucretius Carus “Of the Nature of Things” (Тіт Лукрецій Кар. Про природу речей) – (1988)

• Tragedies by Sophocles (1989)

• Tragedies by Aeschylus (1990)

• Tragedies by Euripides (1993)

• Seneca`s “Moral Letters to Lucilius” (1996)

• Boethius [boʊˈiːθiəs] “The Consolation of Philosophy” (2002)

• Marcus Porcius Cato (Марк Порцій Катон) “Cato`s Distiches” (2009)

• Tibullus, Propertius, Ovid “Roman Elegy” (2009)

• Virgil “Georgics”, “Bucolics” (2011)

• “100 Riddles of Symphosius” (2013)

Latin works of Medieval epoch, Renaissance and modern times:

• Vagant song

• "Salerno Health Code" by Arnold of Vilanova

• "Journey to the eastern edges" by William de Rubruk

• poems by Pavlo Rusyn of Korosn

• medical treatises of XVIII century etc.

In his translations A. Sodomora tried to keep the principle of accuracy of translation (принцип точності перекладу). This principle was used by such Ukrainian translators as M. Rylskyi, M. Bazhan, Leonid Pervomaisky, M. Lukash, H. Kochur and translation studies scholar V. Koptilov.