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Are these the best editions I can get if I want to read Lattimore's translation of Homer?

>> No.18218453

>>18218446
The best edition is the one you can get for free on the internet.

>> No.18218455

>>18218446
Consume bro

>> No.18218462

>>18218453
>I don’t have $20 that I can afford to lose

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>>18218446
Shame the current version is so bad looking. Pushed me to buy Fagles instead (not the only reason, I do prefer how he translates my favourite lines)

>> No.18218566

>>18218480
Yeah that is very bad. I wonder if that's just the dust jacket for the hard cover edition then that seems fine.

>> No.18218608

>>18218566
Nope, it’s a paperback. A semi-high quality pb published by a university press, but a paperback. The companion Odyssey isn’t even published by the same press, it’s by Harper Perennial and looks like a kindergartner painted the cover.

>> No.18218639

>>18218608
Oh alright that sucks. The older one is available in hardcover through abebooks

Oh well

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>>18218480
>Shame the current version is so bad looking
The older paperbacks are kino.

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>>18218608
>The companion Odyssey isn’t even published by the same press, it’s by Harper Perennial and looks like a kindergartner painted the cover.
Hardcover edition is great though.

>> No.18218875

>>18218850
That looks good too.

The only ones that look kind of good now are either paperback or a prose translation by Butler

>> No.18219088
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>>18218446
Go with the Everyman's Library Classics editions with the based Fitzgerald translation instead .

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>>18219088
I considered it while I was searching the archives for general ideas about translations.

is that the cover they use now? Ive ignored it because bookdepository is using a different cover for it.

>> No.18219113

does anyone know much about Lattimore's other translations? I just picked up a copy of his Aeschylus

>> No.18219134

>>18219113
I like his Pindar, much more than the Homer actually

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>>18219106
>is that the cover they use now?
Yes they are pretty nice aesthetically.

https://www.amazon.com/Iliad-Homer/dp/0679410759

https://www.amazon.com/Odyssey-Everymans-Library-Homer/dp/0679410473

>> No.18219171

>>18219137
>>18219088
Those are wonderful.
Thanks I'll get these instead but shipping kinda hurts.
>30usd shipping

Thank you