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1. I saw on /lit/ a meme of pic, only with George Chapman's translation of Homer. I request someone post that meme.
2. Why was the 1600s the best century of translations? The KJV, Chapman's Homer, Florio's Montaigne, Dryden's Virgil and Ovid, Shelton's Cervantes, et al (it shall forever vex me that no Elizabethan ever translated Dante). Nowadays, we only have marketing shit like Pevear & Volokhonsky, liberal shit like Emily Wilson and Maria Dahvana Headley, and bull shit like Edith Grossman. Why were the 1600s so great for translations?

>> No.18635648

>>18635472
>good bible
>book of mormon
everytime gets me

>> No.18635948

bump

>> No.18636005

someone post the Finnegans Wake version of OP

>> No.18636077

>>18635472
Bro the 1600s were the best age of literature in Europe, of course they were the best age for translators

>> No.18637425

bump for both Chapman and Finnegans Wake

>> No.18638286

bump

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>>18635472

>> No.18638545

>>18638460
Oh my god, thank you so much anon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>> No.18638572

>>18638545
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