Have any of you read the Verity translation of the Iliad? If so, what did you think of it?
I've only read Fagles before, but a few people have recommended it to me over the last couple of weeks
It's very concrete and clear but not poetic. Though maybe it has a kind of deadpan poetry.
>>7613080
literally prose shaped like verse.
literally.
just read Lattimore OP.
Or Peter Green's new version.
I haven't but from my experience you can trust whatever Oxford Classics has.
>>7613109
Does Lattimore retain the original line numbering as Verity does?
It physically disgusts me when people recommend any translation other than Pope's.
>>7613141
Fitzgerald is a little pedestrian, but at present the best.
>>7613132
>prefers British classics to Greek
Numbskull. I bet you like Bulfinch, too.
>not reading Pope
swine
>talk shit about rhyming poetry
>recommend pope's illiad
/lit/ makes me laugh.
Fagels or Fitzgerald
Rieu for prose
>>7613131
yeah he does
