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What Iliad translation should I read???

>> No.16213261

google before making a thread

>> No.16213574

>>16213194
You dont choose the translation, the translation chooses you :3. Get readin' lil nigga.

>> No.16214333

Fitzgerald

>> No.16214364

>>16213194
read the pic related

>> No.16214387

>>16214333
this

>> No.16214462

Butler is actually really enjoyable for a prose translation, he kept a lot of the more violent and gory aspects of the illiad that other translators like pope didn’t.

>> No.16214611

>>16214462
>prose
NGMI

>> No.16214638

>>16213194
Lattimore

>> No.16214659

Klingon

>> No.16214667

>>16213194
>not having someone to sing for you in ancient greek
pseud

>> No.16215004

>>16213194
I'm reading Richmond Lattimore's, it works really well as poetry in English, and classics scholars tend to say it's accurate.

>> No.16215075

>>16214611
Who cares if you're not reading it in Greek
if you wish to read an epic translation in English read Pope

>> No.16215504

>>16215075
I didn't say anything about reading in Greek

>> No.16215535

>>16213194
Merrill or pope

>> No.16216051 [DELETED] 

turner translation is always good

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>>16214333
this is the chosen translation

>> No.16216211

>>16216164
based

>> No.16216239

>I want something close to the Greek
Lattimore
>I am comfortable with poetic language and want a great poem in English
Fitzgerald
>I just want to take it easy and enjoy the story
Fagles
>I want Pope
Pope

>> No.16216278

>>16216239
this

>> No.16217393

Verse or prose, my good lads?

>> No.16217892

>>16215504
You didn't but I did
Idiot

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>>16213194
WHERE MY MUHFUCKING BUTLERCHADS AT? THIS ONE GOES OUT TO THE NIGGAS WHO BROUGHT THEMSELVES OUT OF THE DORK, DITCHED THEY GORL, AND PICK UP THE BEST MUHFUCKIN TRANSLATION THEY IS.

>> No.16217997

Robert Graves prose translation

>> No.16218031

>>16217393
Verse if you're not a barbarian

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>>16217393
Verse in prose

>> No.16218236

>>16213194
Nikolay Ivanovich Gnedich or Johann Heinrich Voß. No alternative is acceptable.

>> No.16218285

>>16213194
EV Rieu is my favorite. no one else likes him tho