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How is The Aenid? I'm about to read it for my Ancient Rome class. Which translation would you recommend?

>> No.1453189

>>1453183
The Latin

>> No.1453204

>>1453189
smartass

>> No.1453211

>>1453204
Get it from the Loeb library. Latin on one side, Harvard translation on the other. That way, you can appreciate the musical qualities of the Latin while getting as accurate a translation as is available (musical qualities in translation generally come at the expense of accuracy).

>> No.1453311

hey u got ur odyssey in my iliad!
well u got ur iliad in my odyssey!

!!Wow!!

two great tastes that taste great together (in latin and sucking caesar augustus's dick)!

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>>1453311

a more fitting description of the aeneid has never been written

anyway to answer your question op: try the mandelbaum translation. i read that one in college.

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>> No.1453378

Isn't fiction just a fanfiction of reality?

deep.jpg

>> No.1453385

Fagles was good. It flowed well, was lyrical enough, and was rhythmically sound. It also had lots of end notes with explanations and pointers to other sources.

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>>1453378
Plato came up with that idea. Book 10 of the Republic.

>> No.1453416

>>1453386
I can't say anything nowadays without someone pointing out that it's been said before. It hurts my deep in my heart.

>> No.1453455

fuuuck how do we connect our great roman empire with the greeks whom we so furiously masturbate over? we already ripped off their archetecture, fashion and politics.

hey i know! i'll have one of my ad copy poet boys write an epic origin story starring one really fucking minor character from the iliad as the progenitor of rome! GENIUS!

>> No.1453479

>>1453455
Sunt lacrimae rerum, et mentem mortalia tangunt.

>> No.1453480

>>1453455
How did the romans rip off greek fashion? or their politics? also they improved a lot on the whole architecture thing.

>> No.1453815

>>1453183

If you're reading for sense, David West's 1990 prose version for Penguin's a good choice.