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Best translation of the Iliad and Odyessey? I have the E.V Rieu version but I’m sure there are better out there

>> No.18405182

>>18405164
see >>18392133
Or search the archive for the first three thousand threads on this topic.

>> No.18405190

I read Robert Fagles and the Iliad is my favourite of the two so maybe that says something about the translation idk

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>>18405164
Roland Hampe

>> No.18405194

>>18405164
it doesn't really matter if you aren't a scholar
so pope's

>> No.18405203

stick with Rieu

>> No.18405762

>>18405164
Robert Without Homosexual

Schizos will tell you otherwise but ignore them

>> No.18405981

Alexander Pope for translations of Homer
John Dryden for translations of Virgil
Arthur Golding for translations of Ovid

There you go, that's your classics regimen.

>> No.18406058

>>18405981
Ewww gross