Best translations of The Odyssey and The Iliad?

Verity for Iliad, Mandelbaum for the Odyssey

>sailing the seas, huh?

what a travesty. it should be "doeft thov verily faileth the feafe". that's how ancient greeks actually talked.

Bump

Why don't you read passages from a few and decide for yourself?

They didn't really use pronouns that often though. And there was no do-helping.

The Greeks are both terse and wordy somehow at the same time.

Check the archives you dumb NIGGER. WE HAVE THIS THREAD EVERY FUCKING DAY.

Chapman, obviously. Ignore all the memers ITT.

This is what were studying my literature degree. Go with this.

Hammond

Emmerson

Cleveland

Alieksandr Poop

We have this thread every week. I should know, I spent far too long trying to decide.
1. Don't get memed into assigning a "patrician" status to more verbose or older translations.
2. Know that translations exist on a rough spectrum from word-for-word to thought-for-thought, as explained here:
oldbooksblog.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/best-translation-iliad/
3. If you're still unsure, try this rather direct approach:
159.203.110.57/odyssey/

Hyde

This. And Fitzgerald for the Aeneid.

>Minoan fresco
>For an Achean epic

I feel like this is an edit for triggering people and not actually the cover

C-c-hapman.

I'm always the only one with the fucking Chapman edition in these threads.

I fucking failed at buying a fucking book I bought a fucking rhyming poem version of it

Look through the archives asshole

Lattimore for Iliad and Fitzgerald for Odyssey. Lattimore's Odyssey is very dry.

Pope when you're done with both

Holy shit I am fucking retarded.
>be me
>browsing Veeky Forums
>see newfag ask about Odyssey Translation
>browse the answers
>start to get confused that no one has mentioned the James Joyce translation
>look up the James Joyce translation
>mfw he wrote "Ulysses"
>mfw when I've been on Veeky Forums for 3 years and just realised they are two different entities

wew

Three words: Pope

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