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Iliad/Odyssey Anonymous Thu Feb 6 23:48:18 2020 No.14676749 [Reply] [Original]

What are the best translations for Iliad and Odyssey?

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 23:50:13 2020 No.14676757 >>14676749 For a prose translation, Samuel Butler. For verse, it's down to personal taste.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 23:50:49 2020 No.14676761 personally I think it really comes alive in russian

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 23:58:31 2020 No.14676791 >>14676757 >prose translation No

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 23:59:25 2020 No.14676795 >>14676749 I prefer the latin one written during the renaissance

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 01:04:03 2020 No.14677004 File: 10 KB, 225x225, pepe ting ting.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14676791 I read the Butler version of Odyssey and there was nothing you could do to stop me.

Anonymous Fri Feb 7 01:15:01 2020 No.14677045

The Iliad Translated by Alexander Pope
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6130

The Iliad Translated by Samuel Butler
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2199

The Odyssey Translated by Alexander Pope
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3160

The Odyssey Translated by Samuel Butler
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1727

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 01:18:27 2020 No.14677055 >>14676749 Fagles

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 01:23:42 2020 No.14677066 >>14676749 CHAPMAN

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 01:24:20 2020 No.14677069 File: 139 KB, 828x1280, 9780226470498.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14676749 Richmond Lattimore for The Iliad

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 02:03:46 2020 No.14677196 >>14676749 Pope's Illiad is the best. Fuck precise accuracy when you have sick rhymes every line.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 02:40:55 2020 No.14677278 Compare them yourself newfriend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_translations_of_Homer

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 02:57:50 2020 No.14677307 >>14676749 I don’t think anyone is going to like this, but Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey is fat superior in form and content to any that have preceded it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 03:09:10 2020 No.14677331 >>14676749 Fitzgerald's Iliad read much more nicely than Lattimore, which I found tedious. The Odyssey was shorter, though, so I stuck with Lattimore (I have a nice edition of it) >>14677066 Damn, we got a real renaissance man on our hands

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 03:38:36 2020 No.14677417 >>14676791 Verse translations are inherently retarded.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 03:39:58 2020 No.14677422 >>14677307 >complicated man

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 04:03:32 2020 No.14677497 >>14677307 If you must insist on being a shill for female translators at least recommend Caroline Alexander instead.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 05:15:38 2020 No.14677681 >>14677045 >Pope's Iliad and Odyssey A pretty poem, but please, don't call it Homer.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 05:27:01 2020 No.14677716 Cowper (1809)

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 05:41:55 2020 No.14677751 >>14677307 I just picked up her translation so I’m hoping this is true.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 09:33:20 2020 No.14678444 >>14677307 yuck

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 09:35:42 2020 No.14678448 >>14676749 Kirkpatrick

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