/lit/ - Literature

>>17661308
its lame

>>17661308
>translation

>>17661311
>>17661314
t.

>>17661308
uhhhhh The oddessee?

>>17661311
>>17661314

>>17661308
Where to read for free?

>>17661374
Z-lib.org
Huge library, completely free.

>>17661308
the odyssey? the aeneid? the eddas?

>>17661308
Which translation has the best insults? Homeric insults are always the highlights for me and I'm gearing up for a second read.

>>17662573
No, maybe, not close.

>>17661308
Just keep reading all other translations while learning Homeric Greek then read it in original and keep rereading it.

Every other text is worse.

>>17661308
>Can anything compare?
Yes. Plato, Dante, and Shakespeare

>>17663141
In what way can Plato compare to Homer, Shakespeare and Dante other than having signifiance for our civilization?

I always get sad when I see statements like this because I know if you had just been introduced to classics (great literature) when you were young, you wouldn't be saying things like "I haven't finished anything in 4 months". Instead, you'd have a lifelong appreciation for literature. Let's keep pretending it's worth it to make 12 year olds read Chinua Achibe 400 times though.

>>17661491
I've got the copy of Fagles' Iliad from Z-Lib but the formatting on my Kindle (through Calibre) doesn't format it with the stanzas properly separated.

I'm probably just going to buy the physical copy because I don't like the Iliad looking like it was formatted as a modern novel. Any tips to fix this are appreciated anons

>>17661308
The Odyssey is way better anon.

>>17661308
>Can anything compare?
Faust

>>17661308
Read the Odyssey (Homer) and the Theogony ("the genealogy or birth of the gods". by Hesiod)

>>17664133
Just get the Lattimore version

>>17661308
The Silmarillion.

>>17661308
The Táin

>book good because... It just is? okay cuck??

>>17662573
No, no, and lol

>>17664934
it's the shotgun method, I tried the real sequel, the spiritual successor and an algorithm-tier rec, if none of these are correct then provide your own instead of just dismissing this. No "muh plato" or history books - reading real war accounts drives me to starting a productive social life

>>17664133
>Fagels

>>17661308
Ovid's Metamorphoses

>>17664934
Try Hyperion bro

>>17664999
Someone's into rape fan fic.

>>17661374
>he does it for free

>>17664419
Based
Lattimore is more true to the original

>>17665256
based retard

>>17661308
odyssey !~! Read it!

Spoiler below:
I was so sad when he had to ignore his dog he raised from a pup when he was coming back home - and that it died as he walked away :(((

>>17664117
>Chinua Achibe
Things fall apart was kinda scary with the leaving babies in the forest and them turning into devils/demons shit tho t-t

>>17663209
lol

>>17663209
Well for one, Shakespeare’s literature is a thousand times better than Homer’s. There’s more depth in a single scene of Shakespeare than all of Homer

>>17666351
And, according to you, this somehow answers the question of comparing Plato to the remaining three?