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What is the best translation of Homer's Odyssey? Same question
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Anonymous 2016-05-10 06:47:38 Post No. 1113744 [Report]
What is the best translation of Homer's Odyssey?

Same question for the Illiad.
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Anonymous 2016-05-10 06:57:05 Post No.1113769
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Anonymous 2016-05-10 06:57:05 Post No.1113769 [Report]
>>1113744
Depends on you definition of 'best.' Most readable? Or most accurate?
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Anonymous 2016-05-10 06:57:26 Post No.1113770
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Anonymous 2016-05-10 06:57:26 Post No.1113770 [Report]
This one is in dactylic hexameter, I really like it: http://www.press.umich.edu/17212/odyssey/?s=look_inside

He also did an Iliad
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Anonymous 2016-05-10 07:14:30 Post No.1113826
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Anonymous 2016-05-10 07:14:30 Post No.1113826 [Report]
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Hammond.
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Anonymous 2016-05-10 21:00:11 Post No.1116191
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Anonymous 2016-05-10 21:00:11 Post No.1116191 [Report]
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Robert "Motherfucking" Fagles
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Anonymous 2016-05-11 05:37:51 Post No.1118349
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Anonymous 2016-05-11 05:37:51 Post No.1118349 [Report]
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Richmond Lattimore, for both.
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