Diane J. Rayor

Diane Rayor is Professor Emerita of Classics at Grand Valley State University. Her newest Sappho translation (2023) includes a free audio recording and thirty-two more fragments than in the first edition (2014), with revisions of over seventy fragments.

Rayor has published six book translations of ancient Greek poetry, mythology, and drama: Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works (Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition 2023); Euripides' 'Medea': A New Translation (Cambridge U P, 2013); Sophocles' 'Antigone': A New Translation (Cambridge U P, 2011); Homeric Hymns: A Translation, with Introduction and Notes (California U P, updated 2014); Sappho's Lyre: Archaic Lyric and Women Poets of Ancient Greece (California U P, 1991); and Callimachus (with S. Lombardo, 1988). Her translation scripts for Medea and Antigone have been performed in Australia, Canada, Singapore, UK, and USA.