{{short description|American poet}} {{infobox writer |name=Avi Sharon |occupation={{flatlist| *Poet *professor *translator *consultant }} |nationality=American |education=Emory University<br>Boston University (PhD) |awards=Harold Morton Landon Translation Award (2009) |children=2 }} '''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'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bu.edu/arion/Volume%2016/16.2/16.2.html |title=Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics |accessdate=2009-06-21 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091022064457/http://www.bu.edu/arion/Volume%2016/16.2/16.2.html |archivedate=2009-10-22 }}</ref> ''Partisan Review'', ''Waves'',<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.catranslation.org/Translation/Issues/Waves/w_content.html |title=Waves Content |access-date=2009-06-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090419075536/http://www.catranslation.org/Translation/Issues/Waves/w_content.html |archive-date=2009-04-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''Journal of Modern Greek Studies'',<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sharon |first1=Avi |title=The Drama of Quality: Selected Essays (review) |journal=Journal of Modern Greek Studies |date=2001 |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=173–178 |doi=10.1353/mgs.2001.0010 |s2cid=143890679 |id={{Project MUSE|21935}} }}{{primary source inline|date=February 2024}}</ref> ''Kenyon Review'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kenyonreview.org/issues/winter99/index.php |title=The Kenyon Review |accessdate=2009-06-21 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081122054926/http://www.kenyonreview.org/issues/winter99/index.php |archivedate=2008-11-22 }}</ref> ''Yale Review'',<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sharon |first1=Avi |title=Turning Point: A Year in the Seferis-Katsimbalis Correspondence |journal=The Yale Review |date=January 2000 |volume=88 |issue=1 |pages=44–62 |doi=10.1111/0044-0124.00361 }}{{primary source inline|date=February 2024}}</ref> and ''International Quarterly''.
He works on Wall Street,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121025211648/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-145268106.html "BDS Consulting Group, New York, has merged with The Clearview Group. (Flash! Frozen)"], ''Frozen Food Age'', March 1, 2006</ref> and lives in Brooklyn, with his wife and two sons.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20823 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2009-06-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100407115603/http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20823 |archive-date=2010-04-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==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)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.societyofauthors.net/soa-news/translation-prize-winners-announced |title=Translation Prize Winners Announced | Society of Authors - Protecting the rights and furthering the interests of authors |accessdate=2013-07-22 |url-status=usurped |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927003942/http://www.societyofauthors.net/soa-news/translation-prize-winners-announced |archivedate=2013-09-27 }}</ref>
==Works== * {{cite book| title=Drama as Opera: The Musical Theater of Classical Athens| publisher=Boston University| year=1994 }} * {{cite book| chapter=A Hebrew Lament| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6hw9WdSHmP0C&q=Avi+Sharon&pg=PA43| title=Dialogos: Hellenic Studies Review|editor1=Michael Silk |editor2=David Ricks| publisher=Taylor & Francis| year=2000| isbn=978-0-7146-4478-3 }}
===Translations=== * {{cite book| title=Selected Poems| author=Constantine P. Cavafy |publisher=Penguin Group USA| year=2008| isbn=978-0-14-118561-3| others=Avi Sharon }} * {{cite book| title=Plato's symposium| publisher=Focus| year=1998| isbn=978-0-941051-56-9| others=Avi Sharon| author=Plato }}
===Anthologies=== * {{cite book| chapter=Helen| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d8qTLjwGw8gC&q=Avi+Sharon&pg=PA219| title=Gods and mortals: modern poems on classical myths|editor1=Nina Kossman | publisher=Oxford University Press US| year=2001| isbn=978-0-19-513341-7 }}
===Criticism=== * {{cite journal| url=http://www.greekworks.com/content/index.php/weblog/extended/cressida_among_the_greeks/| date=March 15, 2002| title=Cressida Among the Greeks| journal=Greekworks| access-date=June 21, 2009| archive-date=August 28, 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100828215915/http://www.greekworks.com/content/index.php/weblog/extended/cressida_among_the_greeks/| url-status=dead}}
==Reviews== <blockquote>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....<ref>{{cite journal| url=http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/1999/1999-03-06.html| title=Avi Sharon (trans.), Plato's Symposium. Focus Philosophical Library. | author=Beau David Case| journal=Bryn Mawr Classical Review | date=1999-03-06 }}</ref></blockquote>
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