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[SPOILER] No.17548767[SPOILER]  [Reply] [Original]

I read the Butler prose translation of the Illiad and the Odyssey.
And I liked it

>> No.17548857

That's what I read for iliad and I thought it was really good too. Reminder, that's the translation that Joyce read

>> No.17548867

>>17548767
butler is very good

>> No.17548880

>>17548767
>Some people are going to bully OP about the lists instead of illiad
inb4
Butler's good fun to read otherwise too. He's a bit overlooked these days but Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh are comfy af

>> No.17548896

>>17548880
his essays are terrific as well

>> No.17549763

>>17548857
I never knew that. For a prose translation I felt it was really good. I felt he preserved the brutal aspects of the poems very well. I've heard the original greek poem is very graphically violent which previous translators downplayed. It was a very interesting balance of glorious battle descriptions mixed with outright gore.
>>17548880
I found a copy of erewhon in a local bookstore, is it worth picking up? I've seen the way of all flesh plenty of times as well.

>> No.17550720

>>17548767
For prose, it's good. Of course, verse is always better.