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Which translator is best for The Metamorphoses? Also, I know

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Which translator is best for The Metamorphoses? Also, I know this is a meme, but should I necessarily read anything from the classical era before I read it? I've only read The Iliad and The Odyssey.
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I'm actually interested in this as well (Not OP)
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The advice I got from a friend who is in the Classics department at my school was Mandelbaum
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>>8001839
You should also read the Aeneid.
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>>8002260
Thanks
>>8002312
I thought this as well, but Ovid and Virgil almost contemporaries so I figured there's not much need to read one to understand the other.
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I thought this sort of kind of was for Kafka's The Metamorphosis. S-sorry.
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>>8002341
doesn't really matter which translation you choose, it's incredibly short and the prose is pretty dry (and prose in germanic languages generally translates pretty well into english anyway)
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>>8002406
Thank you. I'll just look for a nice and clean cover then!
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Fagles is pretty good, usually between him and Fitzergald is the argument, Chapman and Lattimore, and Poe, but they say Poe is his own, but I would go with Fitzergald though I haven't read him yet
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It's Mandelbaum
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>>8002590
lol
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>>8001839
I read Rolfe Humphries' translation and it was rather dry. I didn't enjoy it at all.

>>8002339
If you want to read Metamorphoses first, then do that. There are a few nice vignettes where Ovid is clearly riffing off the Aeneid, but it's not really that important at all.
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