#sidewound

pope gregory ix catching blood emitted from the side wound of st. francis who appears to him in a vision

in a vita of st. francis of assisi, illuminated manuscript, germany, late 14th c.

There's a lot there, right? 

There's the fact that it often seems like people don't know what a translator does - that obviously the translator is trying to convey the meaning of the original "faithfully," but that's often impossible, especially because part of the original is the how of what's conveyed rather than the what, and because figuring out what is being conveyed is already interpretation; 

there's the fact the people often don't separate Carson and Sappho or Carson and Euripides; 

and there's the fact that Carson specifically calls her translations "versions," but that's often ignored. She's not trying to give a word-for-word Oresteia - she's trying to create a good theatrical experience.