How is Robert Fagles in comparison to other translations of the Illiad and/or Odyssey?
How is Robert Fagles in comparison to other translations of the Illiad and/or Odyssey?
Joshua Ross
Samuel Davis
Use the archive
Robert Baker
He pisses all over them.
Eli Nelson
He's good. It's basically dressed up stacked prose, but I didn't mind at all, and I think it's better than straight prose translations. I read both his Iliad and Odysssey
Jeremiah Davis
iliad-translations.com
There are a lot of comparisons here
Benjamin Reed
>mfw I want to read both
>the translation anxiety always stops me from buying them
>theres so many translations and so many opinions on each
It's all so tiresome
Carter Martin
fagle haters are just asshurt that Homer can be fun to read in english
they're enjoyable reads, I've had them assigned in a few classics classes. The Odyssey was my personal favorite, the Iliad translation is all right but I could take it or leave it.
Andrew Cook
It's a book you'll want to read more than once anyways so just pick one to start with. It doesn't matter which one.
Adam Thompson
just download ebooks or use amazon to see which one you prefer
Jack Carter
Shame he hates on Lombardo with no reason.
Brayden Flores
start with Fagles because it is very easy. You can find a full reading of the odyssey online. Start with the Iliad though.
youtube.com
Sebastian Rogers
i like fitzgerald
Owen Reed
i like u!
Elijah Brooks
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Lincoln Martin
Fagles is a very good choice if you're a brainlet.
Josiah Cruz
But fagles isn't fun to read
Caleb Gomez
me too user
Connor Bell
Lattimore is the one you want to get. There's comparisons of the translations online, but Lattimore manages, imo, to strike the best balance between poetry, translation accuracy, etc. Fagles is a lot clunkier.
Robert Adams
Same
Angel Moore
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Jose Edwards
Try them out yourself, OP.
I went to a bookstore and compared passages myself. I liked how Lattimore felt, so I got Lattimore.
Austin Butler
I've read all four majors ones and Lattimore is the most Veeky Forums without a shadow of a doubt.
Wyatt Rodriguez
Lattimore is my favorite even though the covers are fucking garbage
Jack Morales
Chapman.
>when your poem translating a poem is so good other poets write poems about your poem.
Nathan Lopez
This. Love Lattimore, hate the covers. The paper in the newest editions is nice and thick, though, so they hold up well in bags & backpacks.
Landon Kelly
Buy the hardcover for five dollars you fucking morons
Grayson Foster
Stephen mitchell has a good translation
James Edwards
Buy the paperbacks for 50 cents, you fucking moron
Oliver Rogers
get a job or go beg for some dollars
Asher Anderson
Well, you assholes turned a perfectly nice thread sour.