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Alright /his/chuds, which translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey should I read? Which ones are the best?
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>not learning ancient greek
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Just any translation before obama
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"homeri Ilias latinis versibus expressa"
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Theyve all got certain qualities. I personally like Fagles and Fitzgerald
https://www.bopsecrets.org/gateway/passages/homer.htm
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>>18587634
pope
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>>18587634
The configuration of multiple banks of oars, mathematically perfected shape of the ram and the aspides the soldiers carry dates this polyreme to the Classical age.
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>>18587634
anything written before 1950 should be free of bullshit
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>>18588065
And King Arthur's Aesthetics come from centuries later as well; they should've wrote their own books if they didn't want it to be that way.
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>>18588098
Homer mentions an Archaic boar's head ram on a penteconter, the French artist is at fault here.
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>>18587634
Samuel Butler



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