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Which ones should I cop If I like Lattimore's translation more, but the Fitzgerald's editions are way better?

>> No.9974062

>>9974048
lattimore

>> No.9974069

I like Lombardo

>> No.9974076
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9974076

>>9974069
>baiting OPs perfectly retarded thread this hard
i'm not even mad, i can dine out on lombardo for weeks, you juicy thing

>> No.9974077

I read pope and fitzgerald, any other I should read?

>> No.9974096

>>9974076
Anyone who jerks off to fancy sounding filler bullshit reminds me of Don Quixote desu.

Especially Christians who only read KJV

>> No.9974123

>not reading fagles

>> No.9974136

>>9974123
>reading FAGles
Yeah sure buddy, don't you have some dick to suck right about now?

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9974152

>>9974096
lombardo's worth getting for the laughs alone
>>9974077
lattimore for sound and accuracy

>> No.9975082

>>9974048
lattimore or gtfo

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>>9974048
I have the University Of Chicago Press edition of The Iliad, I'm not crazy about the cover art but as for the actual quality/durability of the book I'm satisfied with it. Fairly inexpensive as well.

http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo5811519.html

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0226470490

>> No.9977021

>>9974123
>>9974136
In all seriousness, is Fagles bad? I just picked up his translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey earlier today.

>> No.9977049

Are there any editions of Pope's translations that are in print and published by an actual book publisher and not some print-on-demand service?

>> No.9977054

>>9977021
>In all seriousness, is Fagles bad?
No

>> No.9977096

>not learning homeric and attic Greek
It's like you never want to make it

>> No.9977120

>>9977021
Fagles is great, as is Fitzgerald, Lattimore, and others. Don't fall for the retardation here

>> No.9977160

Just get Lattimore

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9977203

>>9974048
>but the Fitzgerald's editions are way better
>>>implying

>>9977049
IIRC there are some on amazon, but you may as well buy an older, used leatherbound copy if you're gonna read Pope. Or a clothbound one should be really cheap and still nice.

>> No.9977240

>>9974152
I have Lombardo solely because I like Hackett

>> No.9978569

>>9974048
Peter Green

>> No.9978576

He made a somewhat funny post, then maybe one or two people sincerely responded "lol" at first; then some cringey redditor samefagged (I was in the thread near the beginning, the poster-to-post ratio you can see at the bottom was way out of proportion --- even now it's pathetically TWO-HUNDRED-FIFTY-SIX replies to NINETY FUCKING POSTERS) a bunch of responses to it, and then the new /reddlit/ faggots here decided to keep responding to it to make a new meme.

>> No.9978593

>>9974076

This might be the "so bad it's good" of literature