Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 1,0, University of Bonn (Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie), course: The English Renaissance, language: English, abstract: The paper analyses five epigrams in Thomas More's and William Lily's work "Progymnasmata" and elaborates on the translation techniques used by the two scholars with reference to their adaptation from the Greek original, word choice, syntactic preferences, metrical qualities and other features.