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16691968

Anonymous Sat Oct 31 14:53:35 2020 No.16691968 [Reply] [Original]

Is it acceptable to read the iliad in prose?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 15:09:48 2020 No.16692054 No. Imagine getting filtered by linebreaks.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 15:25:09 2020 No.16692114 >>16691968 Yes, preferable even. Why would you read some classicist academic's feeble attempts at verse? Alternatively, read Pope or Chapman

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 15:26:17 2020 No.16692120 >>16691968 NO

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 15:38:15 2020 No.16692151 The Iliad is a poem, I'm not sure how you'd read it in prose... Oh wait, did you mean a translation? sorry kid, yngmi

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 15:41:11 2020 No.16692162 >>16691968 There's a tradeoff in each translation, prose maximizes accuracy and loses the poetry. Which is fine for me, I care for the former and don't care for the latter.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 18:29:36 2020 No.16692835 >>16691968 If you can't read it in the original, then you must read it in prose.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 18:32:59 2020 No.16692851 File: 188 KB, 1280x720, maxresdefault.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16692114 Now here's a little story about ACHILLES! Killed bad brothers like a pack of FLEAS!

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 18:33:33 2020 No.16692855 >>16692835 Finally an honest answer