Best "The Republic" Translation?

[Anonymous No.8976334]

I'm looking for the best translation of Plato's Republic, who should I look for?

[Anonymous No.8976338]

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Republic

[Anonymous No.8976347]

>>8976334
Desmond Lee's is the best translation.

[Anonymous No.8976374]

Op here

What about Allan Bloom? Found this question asked on another website and they recommended his translation along with John M Cooper's translation.

[Anonymous No.8976417]

>>8976374
Even the Wikisource is fine.

if you want companion book for it try the Cambridge ones?

[Anonymous No.8976655]

>>8976334
>>8976374
Bloom is one of the best out there. He's literal where it counts (preserving important recurring terms for your own study), without being unreadable. His endnotes are very helpful for picking up on historical and philological information that'd otherwise go missed, and his essay/interpretation, while certainly not in any way definitive, is engaging, largely penetrating, and provocative.

Joe Sach's translation is also very good. Literal almost only with respect to preserving key terms, and otherwise is more conventional without reducing terms and idioms only into modern uses.

[Anonymous No.8976748]

In my opinion the James Bradowski translation is superior even to the Bloom translation.