Looking for the best translation of the iliad, please help me Veeky Forums

looking for the best translation of the iliad, please help me Veeky Forums

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Fagles for beginners.

Pic is related though, that's Achilles in his true form mate

Achilles was black

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Fagles is good

Chapman is very fine, Pope is too. If those prove too heavy try Lattimore.

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Never.

Lattimore.

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Ah, yes, the famous blond savage

Thoughts on the Verity translation?

Fagles reads like shit
Go with Fitzgerald

>Ah, yes, the famous blond savage
Nice simple description for the incarnation of Ares. Was that intentional, brah?

odorico mendes

E. V. Rieu

Chapman ftw.

The best translations are faithful to the target language, not the source language. Chapman writes as if Homer had been English.

Get whatever translation you want, but also get War Music by Christopher Logue.

I really enjoyed it, but I'm not an authority.

fitzgerald master race.

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KANGS

I enjoyed Pope, Fagles is good as well.

Nobody here is, user

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I liked Fagles

Why do you recommend this one? I have that edition but I've been told it's better to read the Iliad in verse.