Who are the best English translators of the Greeks, /lit/? Curious to hear your reasons why.

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Anonymous Wed Dec 16 20:32:13 2020 No.17047520 [Reply] [Original]

Who are the best English translators of the Greeks, /lit/? Curious to hear your reasons why.

Anonymous Wed Dec 16 21:14:02 2020 No.17047832

>>17047520
thomas taylor, because he wasn't a christian and was an actual neoplatonist and philologist, the first englishman to translate plato and aristotle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Taylor_(neoplatonist)

you won't find any disingenuous revolting semitic christian interpretations in his translations

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