Short information about the history of translation theory

Abstract

This article is devoted to the history of translation. There were given some information about the history of translation is closely connected with the history of culture, art, and literature. A nation cannot develop in its own room. It grows by learning and developing the achievements and experiences of other nations. It is known that the cradle of world civilization goes to the East. When Alexander the Macedonian conquered the East, there was a renaissance of antiquity in Greece, absorbing the achievements of natural sciences in India, the experiences of ancient Iranian culture, and reciprocating the successes of Western science and culture.