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Hi, I am reading the Iliad for the second time. I read it the first time as a child and I am revisiting it a second. I am reading the E.V.Rieu translation from Penguin, and it strikes me as supremely boring in comparison to what I remember of it.
Can anybody recommend a better translation? Or has nostalgia blinded me to the reality of the book?
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You're reading a prose translation of verse, and considering you've read it once before i don't understand for what purpose.
Go with basically any other verse translation, look into all the common recommended ones like pope, fagles, fitzgerald, merrill ect and take your pick
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Literature isn't for you desu
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Prose translations of poetry seem a weird idea to me. I'd try a poetic one- you can easily google up comparisons of the many translators to see which (if any) you like.
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>>9703461
I love reading philosophy and most other stuff I have read, why do you think I am posting here?
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>>9703468
Just being honest.
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My first time reading the Iliad I read a prose translation to better understand it. My second time I read the Fitzgerald poetic translation and enjoyed it much more. I would recommend it.
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>>9703358
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=7194729375&clickid=1diVFpRAHU4e0yc1f63DnQ7rUkhV8yRdS3ih3o0&cm_mmc=aff-_-ir-_-64490-_-77798&ref=imprad64490&afn_sr=impact
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>>9703490
crooky crook crook
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>>9703715
>literal prose translation
Loeb are only really good if you want a really literal translation for something like philosophy, or you're using it as a crib, i wouldn't recommend it for something like the Iliad
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Chapman is by far best
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Fagles
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Read the Odyssey. The Iliad is shit bro.
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>>9703358
>read it the first time as a child
I bet you were a pretentious little faggot.
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>>9704226
Because being forced to read it in school makes you pretentious.
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>>9703358
Everyone i have spoken to suggests Fagles is very good but i havent read it
I read fitzgerald. Very enjoyable read its in iambic pentameter to try and mimic the poeticness best in english but it is very good both his iliad odyssey Nd aeneid
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