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What’s the cr Odyssey translation? Fitzgerald? Lattimore? Fagles?…
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Date: July 16th, 2026 11:19 AM Author: Ricky (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883205&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#50003858) |
Date: July 16th, 2026 11:22 AM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, it's ... complicated. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883205&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#50003868) |
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Date: July 16th, 2026 11:28 AM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, https://www.reddit.com/r/classics/comments/yrj49k/comparison_of_odyssey_translations/ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883205&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#50003893) |
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Date: July 16th, 2026 12:58 PM Author: The Maine Politician?s Assaults The Wilson translation seems the most IFNB-friendly, based on that excerpt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883205&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#50004105) |
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Date: July 16th, 2026 2:05 PM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, would make a great IFNB epic if only Hollywood has the courage. think of the Iliad scenes with Achilles and Patroclus. or in this Nolan version of the Odyssey they could have the soldiers spending the evening with their pal Sinon only to discover that he is a man with a vagina. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883205&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#50004258) |
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Date: July 16th, 2026 11:58 AM Author: The Penis Fagles (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883205&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#50003978) |
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Date: July 16th, 2026 12:37 PM Author: The Rumpole Omnibus ((zurich is stained)) the credited translation is Avi Coinblatt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883205&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#50004065) |
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Date: July 16th, 2026 1:09 PM Author: CapTTTainFalcon https://i.4pcdn.org/pol/1536602493672.jpg (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883205&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#50004126) |
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Date: July 16th, 2026 2:04 PM Author: Ricky (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883205&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#50004257) |
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Date: July 16th, 2026 12:56 PM Author: The Maine Politician?s Assaults Fagles
Fitzgerald is way too dry |
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Date: July 16th, 2026 1:03 PM Author: The Penis His translation of Sophocles is excellent too (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883205&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#50004114) |
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Date: July 16th, 2026 1:09 PM Author: The Maine Politician?s Assaults cr I think I have the penguin classics theban plays somewhere that uses his translation (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883205&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#50004124) |
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Date: July 16th, 2026 1:06 PM Author: CapTTTainFalcon sing to me of the man, muse the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course one he had plundered the hallowed heights of troy
many cities of men he saw and learned their minds many pains he suffered heartsick on the open sea fighting to save his life and bring his men home
but he could not save them, hard as he strove the recklessness of their own ways destroyed them all, the blind fools they devoured the cattle of the sun and the sun god wiped from sight the day of their return
launch out on the story, muse, daughter of zeus start from where you will sing for our time too |
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Date: July 16th, 2026 2:06 PM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Emily Wilson (2018):"Tell me about a complicated man. / Muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost / When he had wrecked the holy town of Troy..."Focus: Fast, modern, and strictly adheres to iambic pentameter. It directly translates the Greek word polytropos as "complicated".
Robert Fagles (1996):"Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns / driven time and again off course, once he had plundered / the hallowed heights of Troy..."Focus: Grandiose, cinematic, and highly poetic. It captures the epic scale while using "twists and turns" to describe Odysseus's wily nature.
Richmond Lattimore (1965):"Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways, who was driven / far journeys, after he had sacked the sacred citadel of Troy..."Focus: Academic and literal. It closely mirrors the original Greek sentence structure, making it a favorite for university study.
Robert Fitzgerald (1961):"Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story / of that man skilled in all ways of contending, the wanderer, harried for years on end, / after he plundered the stronghold on the proud height of Troy."Focus: Lyrical and theatrical, often compared to Shakespearean verse. It frames Odysseus as a master of both battle and wits. |
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Date: July 16th, 2026 2:15 PM Author: The Penis Directly translates poly (many) tropos (turns) as "complicated". (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883205&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#50004288) |
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Date: July 16th, 2026 2:05 PM Author: Ricky I accidentally grabbed the Emily Wilson one and HFS that was embarrassing just to read the first page (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883205&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#50004259) |
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Date: July 16th, 2026 2:09 PM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, that's why up above i said the issue was ... "complicated." rather than praise Odysseus for his many-ways skills (polytropos) she goes with something you could almost hear her say in a feminist vocal fry: it's complicated. |
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Date: July 16th, 2026 2:08 PM Author: lex There are a lot of good ones. Fagles is the looser but more vivid classic, while lattimore is more stately, I would say. Not a classic, but I really like the recent one by stephen mitchell. Do not, under any circumstances, read Wilson. Her Iliad is better, but not by much |