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What is the best translation of The Odyssey? I read this and didn't think the dialogue was translated well. What is the best translation.

>> No.16715774

Fagles

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>>16715743
>What is the best translation of The Odyssey?
E. V. Rieu or Samuel Butler

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1727/1727-h/1727-h.htm

>> No.16715842

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlXvRgbjwlU

>> No.16715885

>>16715839
isn't rieu's version in prose?

>> No.16715988

>>16715885
>>16715743
>>16715839
Life is too short to read Homer in prose. Fagles, Lattimore, and Fitzgerald are the better choices

>> No.16716749

>>16715988
Fagles is basically prose though fuck that guy

>> No.16716755

>>16715842
forming your channel's identity about a shitty brand of mass-market paperbacks

>> No.16716758

>>16716755
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>> No.16717239

Read Pope.

>> No.16717259

>>16715885
You're not reading it in the original anyway so what does it matter?

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>>16717259
Anon has a point. I enjoyed Rieu's Iliad, and I would sincerely recommend him as well (especially if English isn't your mother tongue, as in my case).