Which Odyssey translation wins a blind reading test?
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Which Odyssey translation wins a blind reading test?
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#2Sorry this could be offensive didn't mean to be.. Any Greek speakers who studied Homer in school here can share what are your favourite English translations?
Prefer Lattimore or Fitzgerald as being closer to original?
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#3At this point I don't think I'll see the movie because I don't want it to ruin the good memories/scenes I have in my mind from the book I read a few years ago. Maybe someday but I think I'll reread the book before then.
Also, there was too much data n the linked article. :)
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#4Homer's original won a blind writing test.
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#5Homer's original won a blind writing test.
Badoom-tish
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#6I got Robert Fitzgerald, wish it would tell me which passages were by which authors after I finished though
ah, it does, to an extent at least - about 2/3rds down the front page, ctrl+f for "opening"
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#7“How much you enjoy the prose” doesn’t really seem like the metric by which we should rank these? I’d prefer to read whatever’s most faithful to the original, which isn’t measured here.
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#8“How much you enjoy the prose” doesn’t really seem like the metric by which we should rank these? I’d prefer to read whatever’s most faithful to the original, which isn’t measured here.
Is there such thing as an original for a 3000 year old tale? The ancient Greek versions will be heavily edited and modified
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#9Standard eBooks has a translation by William Cullen Bryant. I was hoping that would be in the rankings to see how it compared.
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#10Sorry this could be offensive didn't mean to be.. Any Greek speakers who studied Homer in school here can share what are your favourite English translations? Prefer Lattimore or Fitzgerald as being closer to original?
Derek Thompson's Plain English podcast just had Emily Wilson on talking about comparisons between the translations, and quite a bit of the iconic lines of the Odyssey from the midcentury translations are kind of just made up. Like, "skilled in all ways of contending" from "man of many turns"; "the wanderer, harried for years on end" --- find that in the Greek?