Cope and seethe incels, Emily Wilson’s Odyssey is the best translation by far.
Can we just have an Emily Wilson containment thread already?
>>25283799Get used to it anon, it's gonna get a whole lot worse when Nolan's dogshit movie finally comes out.
>>25283796gotta love how every single one of those thread is the apparatus eating itself, you don't get it, do you? you're holding the spoon. emily wilson is bait and she was always going to be. the photograph was blindingly bait. but no, no, half this board doesn't get it, still, the seething is the product. you typed it, they sold it, the algorithm is always counting. what's sadder though, is you wanting to ragebait & it working half the time, what's even sadder? you half-ironically wanting to do critic. do a fucking critic on the actual subject of history, which is not her. dimwit. it is the machine that produced her translation and produced your reaction to her translation and is producing this post and your read of this post and the algorithm watching us both.pity though. she shows up at a book signing. you? you show on a half-dead half-eaten by rightoids zombies to seethe. me? i'd say that's the extact fucking same shift.
It's an extremely embarrassing translation
>>25283796I genuinely want to understand how someone can, in good conscience, conclude that for over a millennia, every translation of a work from Ancient Greece was somehow “sexist” and that her own interpretation is the correct one. We’re talking about a work that contains an absurd number of references to patriarchs and male lineages. Hector and Alexander are “sons of Priam”, Menelaus and Agamemnon are “Atreides", Diomedes is “Tydides", Glaucus is the grandson of Bellerophon, Odysseus refers to himself as “father of Telemachus”, Zeus is “Cronides", and so on, and so on. How the do you arrive at the conclusion that this is not a “patriarchal” work and that it was actually corrupted by translators?
>>25283841The point is pretty simple: that a man translating in 1616, or 1725, or 1900, brings to the Greek text more of his own century than he perhaps realises. This is not a scandal. It is barely even interesting, except to people who’ve made it interesting by refusing to notice it. Samuel Butler said the Iliad and Odyssey have been school books for nearly 3,000 years, and what more cruel revenge could dullness take on genius? Three thousand years of schoolteachers. Think about it.
What pushes a woman to translate the Odyssey?
>>25283796>when the filters pancake your face so much you lose your bone structure
>>25283866(You)s
>>25283947lol
>>25283796this horse-faced witch looks familiardoes she do /lit/ reviews on youtube?
>>25283982It’s probably someone else who you are thinking of, her name is alexandraohudson on instagram
>>25283800>blah blah blah my life sucksEnd yourself
>>25283866Women will always try to invade men's spaces, and will divert attention from said space to them. It's just a natural feature due to their biological imperative, and is partly their will-to-live.
>>25285307Why don't we just eliminate them then?
