Everyone working with Latin and Greek texts shares a Special Relationship with translation: any access to texts written in those 'dead' languages is by default via translation only. Classicists live in what may be called the 'translation condition'—they have to translate. Translation in Classics, however, though absolutely fundamental, remains insufficiently considered or discussed. This ground-breaking volume is the first to provide a systematic and theoretically sophisticated treatment of translating these classical languages. Thoroughly informed by Translation Studies and cognate disciplines, it is organized in four distinct yet inter-connected parts: translation practices, select histories of translation, ten first-hand accounts by published Classicist-translators and a section devoted entirely to translation pedagogy. All of this is accompanied by an Introduction, a Glossary and an Annotated General Bibliography. The chief goal of this Critical Guide is to create a 'topography of translation' within the discipline of Classics and beyond.