So many copies of Art of war, which one is the best in terms

>>9466348
The original version

>>9466372
Thank you anyone else?

>>9468045
Minford

>>9466372
What language was it written in?

>>9469879
>by Sun Tzu
Its Portuguese obviously.

thanks for the help hopefully that's a good version

>>9469879
English

>>9470023
>>9470109
There are a lot of languages in that region, I was just wondering which ones Sun Tzu spoke and which one he wrote it in. Do we even know?

>>9469879
>>9470634
The original was very old. It's hard to know for sure, but I bet it was written in Latin

>>9470634
Classical Chinese

And the John Minford translation is best, he's a top professor of Chinese. Giles translation is acceptable but old. Avoid the Griffith translation, the guy was an officer and military historian but not at all qualified in the language.

>>9470634
>I was just wondering which ones Sun Tzu spoke
Not sure.
>and which one he wrote it in
Classical Chinese of course.
>not having a common literary language
>fifth century BC

>>9466348

I have Cleary's version it's pretty good. Also use Sonshi website

https://www.sonshi.com/original-the-art-of-war-translation-not-giles.html

>>9471141

also read this page

https://www.sonshi.com/best-art-of-war-books.html

>>9470682

have you read the ames version?

>>9471175
I haven't, but it's probably very good, he's also highly qualified. I shouldn't have said "best", there's no such thing as a best translation.

just torrented the epub file for minford