Shlomo Dykman

Shlomo Dykman (Hebrew: שלמה דיקמן; 10 February 1917 – 1965) was a Polish-Israeli translator and classical scholar.

Following the outbreak of World War II and the division of Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union, he fled to Bukhara, where he taught Hebrew.

He served his sentence working in coal mines in the Arctic region of the northern Ural Mountains.

[1] Dykman published many Hebrew translations of Greek literature and of the Roman and Latin classics.

Among his translations were the tragedies of "Aeschylus" and "Sophocles", the poem "Aeneid" by Virgil and "Metamorphoses" by Ovid.