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Anonymous Fri Feb 3 11:11:17 2023 No.21608318 [Reply] [Original]

>For me, it's the Pope translation.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 3 11:15:44 2023 No.21608336 >surname is Pope >is Catholic Who writes this shit?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 3 14:47:10 2023 No.21608910 File: 98 KB, 700x700, tF3mjW9D46wG.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] WC Bryant's translation remains the patrician's choice.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 3 14:54:48 2023 No.21608937 File: 235 KB, 528x438, 1650320847339.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21608336 wait till you find out the protagonist's name is "A-killer"

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 3 15:12:24 2023 No.21608975 >just realized my young adulthood copy is a b*tler translation with the names changed back to greek Correcting the most grievous error does not solve this. I guess I need to get a nice Fagles set now to purify my mind?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 3 16:06:50 2023 No.21609144 File: 1.96 MB, 2282x2690, John_Keats_by_William_Hilton.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21608318 For me, it's Chapman's Homer

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 3 16:27:36 2023 No.21609213 >>21609144 >mfw when I found out he was a serial killer

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 3 16:32:47 2023 No.21609230 Cowper

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 3 16:40:26 2023 No.21609264 >>21608318 >translation

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 3 20:58:15 2023 No.21610220 >>21609144 Based watcher of the skies

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 3 22:33:16 2023 No.21610603 File: 81 KB, 900x450, default.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] For me it's fitzgerald's homer

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 3 22:42:37 2023 No.21610633 >>21608318 Fagles and Pope are the only translations worth reading. I saw an old leatherbound Pope translation from 1890's or something on ebay a while back and I regret not getting it

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 3 23:17:09 2023 No.21610770 Why the fuck is Pope's iliad so insanely expensive

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 02:01:22 2023 No.21611382 >>21610633 Fagles is Fun

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 03:50:26 2023 No.21611708 File: 55 KB, 1024x768, old ass nigga.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] It's the Peter Green for me

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 03:52:13 2023 No.21611716 >>21610633 Nice bait

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 05:09:48 2023 No.21611966 >>21608318 >pope I just hate heroic couplets so much bros For me, it's Lattimore.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 09:29:51 2023 No.21612561 >>21608318 What makes the Pope translation better than its rivals?