/lit/ - Literature

>>19256512
our language has deteriorated so much in the past 100 years that this isn't the case at all

Ok now that the dust has settled, how does her translation compare to others?

>>10348259
I wish i could see your face when you find out she translated Seneca.
Also heres how she starts the translation.

Tell me about a complicated man.
Muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost
when he had wrecked the holy town of Troy,
and where he went, and who he met, the pain
he suffered in the storms at sea, and how
he worked to save his life and bring his men
back home. He failed to keep them safe; poor fools,
they ate the Sun God’s cattle, and the god
kept them from home. Now goddess, child of Zeus,
tell the old story for our modern times.
Find the beginning.

I've spent about 5k on books this year so far, used and new.

/lit/ why haven't you endorsed the best translation of the Odyssey yet?

Pic related, it's the translator

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/magazine/the-first-woman-to-translate-the-odyssey-into-english.html

get it while it's hot

https://www.amazon.com/Odyssey-Homer/dp/0393089053