/lit/ - I want to read the Iliad but Im not buying a physi - Literature

Anonymous

12/09/25(Tue)16:35:52 No.24938085

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Anonymous 12/09/25(Tue)16:35:52 No.24938085 Archived

I want to read the Iliad but Im not buying a physical book
>Project Gutenberg has several editions of this eBook:
>#51355 (Translated by George Chapman)
>#6130 (Translated by Alexander Pope)
>#16452 (Translated by William Cowper)
>#22382 (Translated by Theodore Alois Buckley)
>#6150 (Translated by Edward, Earl of Derby)
>#3059 (Translated by Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf and Ernest Meyers)
>#2199 (Translated by Samuel Butler)
Which one /lit/?

Anonymous
12/09/25(Tue)16:37:20 No.24938089

Anonymous 12/09/25(Tue)16:37:20 No.24938089

>>24938085
butler

Anonymous
12/09/25(Tue)16:37:30 No.24938092

Anonymous 12/09/25(Tue)16:37:30 No.24938092

>>24938085
Why is everyday a new thread about this topic? Why do you all want to read illiad? Read dickens or something God damn it! Or just fuckin check the catalog.

Anonymous
12/09/25(Tue)16:38:39 No.24938101

Anonymous 12/09/25(Tue)16:38:39 No.24938101

>>24938085
anything but chapman and you start entering fanfiction territory desu

Anonymous
12/09/25(Tue)16:38:43 No.24938102

Anonymous 12/09/25(Tue)16:38:43 No.24938102

>>24938092
https://youtu.be/ukznXQ3MgN0?si=F_yMF2TuVAbtr83l

Anonymous
12/09/25(Tue)16:41:54 No.24938111

Anonymous 12/09/25(Tue)16:41:54 No.24938111

>>24938101
>gives it the ‘fanfiction’ line of attack
>hasn’t been here long enough to know you can’t type tb h
says it all

OP
12/09/25(Tue)16:50:16 No.24938147

OP 12/09/25(Tue)16:50:16 No.24938147

>>24938085
>https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57654
>Translator Segalá y Estalella, Luis, 1873-1938
Im native Spanish speaker so I could also take this one in consideration. But Im just looking to whatever is the best translation.

Anonymous
12/09/25(Tue)16:54:52 No.24938162

Anonymous 12/09/25(Tue)16:54:52 No.24938162

>>24938111
sybau senpai

Anonymous
12/09/25(Tue)16:57:47 No.24938168

Anonymous 12/09/25(Tue)16:57:47 No.24938168

>>24938162
lol

Anonymous
12/09/25(Tue)17:05:15 No.24938185

Anonymous 12/09/25(Tue)17:05:15 No.24938185

>>24938085
Chapman. Simply because he understood that you can't translate a poem, but only recast it, in a form appropriate to your own language.
Ingnore this faggot: >>24938101

Anonymous
12/09/25(Tue)17:12:09 No.24938196

Anonymous 12/09/25(Tue)17:12:09 No.24938196

>>24938102
Iliad topic everyday here. I don't care for it. Useless subtext for morons yeah. Which translation you want just get it and read. Or check archive for topic discussed already. Don't post meme defenses be logical.

Anonymous
12/09/25(Tue)17:15:26 No.24938205

Anonymous 12/09/25(Tue)17:15:26 No.24938205

Buy a physical copy of chapman and read it aloud, pussy

Anonymous
12/09/25(Tue)17:17:41 No.24938213

Anonymous 12/09/25(Tue)17:17:41 No.24938213

>>24938085
Get a library card and you will (if you're like me) get access to lots of free ebooks

Anonymous
12/09/25(Tue)17:18:03 No.24938214

Anonymous 12/09/25(Tue)17:18:03 No.24938214

>>24938196
bloody fuck you!

OP
12/09/25(Tue)17:19:20 No.24938219

OP 12/09/25(Tue)17:19:20 No.24938219

>>24938205
Im not a pussy, just poor

Anonymous
12/10/25(Wed)08:29:19 No.24939697

Anonymous 12/10/25(Wed)08:29:19 No.24939697

Hmm yes

Anonymous
12/10/25(Wed)17:54:44 No.24940952

Anonymous 12/10/25(Wed)17:54:44 No.24940952

Bump