I’ve added this Greek book on BB. It’s a translation and the writer’s name appears in two different forms, one in the original Latin script spelling and one transliterated into the Greek alphabet. I only saw the Greek form after I had added the book, so now I’m wondering if I did right. The Latin form appears on the cover as well as the copyright page, whereas the Greek form appears twice, once in the first page before the main text and another one in the flap that provides the writer’s short biography. Now, I’ve already added the Greek spelling as an alias but should I change the author credit on the book entity?
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It’s certainly correct because there is no way to show differences on different places on the edition at the moment.
There are often many differences on the cover and the title page or on the spine. Eg. author is just credited abbreviated on the cover and with full name on the title page or: The cover doesn’t show a subtitle although it’s printed on the title page. I try to add the ‘most complete’ variant.
In your case both variants would be correct but since we doesn’t have the possibility of adding scans of the title page at the moment I would prefer to add the author’s name as printed on the cover.
Perhaps in the (distant) future we will have the ability to document the differences.
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I think @zemeles’s question is which script should prevail when more more than one is used in the book. Usually the two place to look at is the cover and the copyright page, so I think it makes sense to use the Latin version, as @indy133 said. But if both places don’t match, I think that’s a question that hasn’t been discussed.
My question would be, is it common to books translated into Greek to have the author’s name in the Latin script? If so, there’s no issue here, the page on BB looks just like the book cover; if not, we might in the future have a Greek style guide preferring Greek script to Latin, when both appear in the book.
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I think both are done. I’m not much of a reader but I’ve seen plenty of books where the writer’s name is transliterated but keeping it in the Latin script isn’t uncommon either. I don’t know if it depends on the kind of book or not though. For now, I’m gonna keep it as is.
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