What is the best translation of Sappho
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>>23627840Who is it?
>>23627742>translation Don't even bother.
>>23627940>you can’t enjoy a bookunless you know the language it’s inShut the fuck up
>>23627964Yeah you can't translate poetry.
>>23627742Start with Athenaze
>>23627742Edward StorerErnst Morwitz might also be of interest. Carson is idiosyncratic, but interesting in its own right.
>>23627742I like Bliss Carmen, but he's who I came to know her by, so I am biased. Look up lots. I read a few modern ones from Rice University that were good. >>23627940Shut your stupid mouth moron.
>>23627995Shut your stupid fucking mouth you middling faggot.
>>23629217>>23629220Seething Greekless faggots
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>>23627742Anne CarsonIt’s the only one I have read admittedly but it is supposed to be the best of them. She is very clear and exact in word meanings and literally every other word is annotated. Fragments with three words end up with two of them having paragraph long annotations in the back explaining the exact conjugation and meaning of the word.
>>23628896>Carson is idiosyncratic, but interesting in its own right.The end notes are roughly ten times as long as the actual fragments so it is by far the best translation for background info going on that alone.
>>23627742Sappho only exists in fragments Only a braindead redditor would bother reading her in translation.
>>23629496She has two complete poems. 31 which is about an unrequited lesbian love and a different one I can’t recall the number which is a wedding song in praise of Helen and Paris.
>>23629499The historiagraphy on those poems is so shaky that even a stem journal wouldn't dare publish such obvious fake chink bullshit.
>>23629499Is not lesbian. That's ahistorical fan fiction. After all she killed herself over Chad (Phaon)
I like Cattulus for translations
>>23629509The poem itself is lesbian. The attribution of the narrator to Sappho herself is spurious. The implication that Sappho only wrote from her pov isn’t likely to be backed up by any facts.
>>23628896Also Anne Carson’s and the Loeb’s edition in Greek both have the original Greek on dual facing sides so if you plan to read Greek you should choose one of the two.
>>23629520Why do you assume the PoV is female then?
>>23629537Huh. I just looked it up and I guess you’re right that the narrator’s gender isn’t mentioned.
>>23629541Just academia trying to poz everything again imo
>>23629494sex
