From Reuters: Harry Potter becomes Warrior Cup in Ancient Greek.
Posted on February 20, 2004 01:58 AM. Filed under: books & lit.LONDON (Reuters) - Harry Potter becomes "Warrior Cup" and his enemy Voldemort "Scaly Death" in a translation of the schoolboy wizard's adventures into Ancient Greek due for publication this summer.
Retired classics teacher Andrew Wilson told Reuters he had to stretch his linguistic ingenuity to turn J.K. Rowling's magic boarding school fantasy into a language not used for 1,500 years.
Wilson, 64, was commissioned in January 2002 by publisher Bloomsbury to translate "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" into the Greek spoken in ancient Athens.
The book, the first in Rowling's multi-million-selling series, has already been translated into 60 languages and is available in 200 countries. [continue]