Share any books or sets you just recently bought
Just got this, a set of the Illiad, Odyssey and the Aenead translated by Fagles. I've never read the Fagles translations before so I hope I'm in for a good read.
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Xavier Sanders
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Julian Morales
fucking
Joshua Peterson
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Adam Campbell
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Jack Barnes
....What are you doing?
Thomas Anderson
letting some creativity out
Easton Evans
FAGLES IS GARBAGE YOU HAVE WASTED YOUR MONEY ITS A HIGHSCHOOL VERSION PEDDLED BY PUBLISHERS TO SELL TO PLEBS
POPE for most poetic
LATTIMORE for most accurate
FITZGERALD is somewhere in between
CHAPMAN is a lesser Pope but Keats liked him
Research translations next time you complete moron
Asher Hernandez
dude chill a bit ok
remeber its anothre hhuman bean on the other side of the monitor
Benjamin Green
And Merrill?
Tyler Brooks
I did research them and read examples, Fagles sounds the best read out loud and is the most dramatic. All others sound dated and dull
Jacob Gomez
Never read it but it looks really good. Based on the first page I'd put it above Fitzgerald and below Pope, will opt for it when I reread the Iliad
Ethan Green
>All others sound dated and dull
Your a pleb, Fagles uses dull contemporary language that smooths the verse and makes it read like prose, it's complete garbage
Asher Bennett
>Your
O shit maybe I'm the pleb
Jordan Morales
>All others sound dated
>translation is dated
>book is 2500 years old
Robert Howard
Fagels is an good enough translation and anyone who says otherwise is a memer.
Jayden Diaz
Seeing this opinion really makes me dissapointed in this board. That's exactly like reading a contemporary shakespeare translation because it's "good enough", "flows better" and "isn't dated".
Easton Morris
> tfw you didn't buy the Lattimore translations
Lincoln Baker
just bought this. excited
Cooper Jackson
>Shakespeare
>Translation
I know No Fear exists but you can't compare Greek from 2500 years ago to still readable English.
Ethan Diaz
You give me hope.
Aaron Green
I see meme potential here
Carter Anderson
OP hasn't read the books yet, hence why they're "good enough." He go go to better ones once he is familiar with the story.
Blake Jenkins
*can go
Nicholas Powell
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Aaron Garcia
I got the WHD Rouse is it good if not I got it for .50 cents so its not much of a loss
Brody Stewart
lel you're a retard
Fagles is simply the best translation.
Blake Morris
is this where i start with the greeks?
shouldn’t i start with myths and legends?
Dylan Carter
When comparing my spanish and german copy, they're almost literally the same, and comparing them both to Fagles' and Lattimore's translation, Fagles is almost the same as the others, so I'm gonna assume Fagles is more accurate unless someone who can actually read homeric greek proves me wrong.
Parker Bailey
>2017
>Still misspelling Aeneid
The correct spelling is literally in your picture
Jace Rodriguez
This and Emily Dickens poetry collection.
Im new to lit stuff
Easton Thomas
I can. Fagles takes too much liberty but it's good if your a high school kid or a pleb.
Landon Parker
Can you provide some examples? I'm genuinely curious.
Connor Rodriguez
Relevant to the thread.
Landon Fisher
Start with the Sumerians
Austin Gomez
I like the repetition of "waves" in fagles version. Very effective.
Daniel Gray
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Jack Hill
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Jacob Taylor
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Jonathan Flores
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Ryan Perry
Reminder that people only hate Fagles to be knee-jerk contrarians
Brayden Sullivan
Lol. Fucking spaghetti pleb.
Levi Howard
Faccia di merda
Eli Wilson
>unironically buying translations
>not living on govt benefits and dedicating ALL of your time to the study of Latin and Ancient Greek
brainlets
Liam Lee
recently got this old Whal Whitman, what do you guys think? worth anything?
Matthew Watson
Pope soars above the others
Tyler White
Everything in Italian sounds so much cooler.
Isn't it very easy to understand French if you can speak Italian and vice versa?
I have been learning French for about a year and a half; when I started Italian a few weeks ago it felt like I already knew 75% of the words.
Robert Howard
Why the fuck are the translations SO DIFFERENT
Isn't it just a simple act of
>LEARN GREEK.
>TRANSLATE
But these are all so fucking DIFFERENT. Like different goddamn books.
Also
Pope is by far the bestest.
Jack Jackson
Cuz it's poetry brainlet
Sebastian Moore
uwu
Jayden White
You faggots are making me so jealous, there's literally garbage tier bookshop only in this fucking country.
I really want to move into U.S. to get to these goat tier bookshops.
Leo Peterson
What country?
Jonathan Robinson
Move to Canada instead; you get the GOAT bookstores and at the same time you aren't likely to be a mass shooting victim.
Brody White
Fuck off, we're full
Isaiah Nguyen
My bud who works at a bookstore and reads attic greek says fagles is the best translation
I've read fagles and lattimore and fagles is fucking fine, especially for a reader new to homer
Thomas Sanchez
The greeks are myths and legends retard
Do you think Zeus literally sat on a mountain and watched Greeks fight Trojans for 20 years?
Daniel Roberts
All white people are welcome.
Jason Richardson
Too bad Cuckdeau is going to turn us into the next Sweden.
Kayden Taylor
Or.. Orrrr OR
Go fuck yourself
Ryan Sanders
Don't blame me, I voted NDP -- I just wanted weed decriminalized. Call me "DUDE WEED LMAO" all you want, I don't fucking care buddy.
Samuel Cooper
Finnish expat living in North Africa.
Jonathan Kelly
I voted NDP too. It honestly looked like they might have won a minority government in the beginning.
A medical card is very easy to obtain.
t. "Glaucoma" patient
Hudson Allen
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Dylan Moore
You'll be in search of lost time after reading that.
>Stephen King
Google the copyright?
Interesting collection, what pinecone edition is that?
Can relate.