Which is the most "faithful" translation? I'm talking about word-for-word accuracy rather than prose or meter.I'm finishing my read of Iliad by Verity, so I'm exploring my options.
Literally posting the exact same wilson bait threads over and over. KILL YOURSELF.
>>25428024This is literally my first post on /lit/ ever
Lattimore and Butler are the best for accuracy over style.
>>25428019Neither of these are particularly great for what you want. I would suggest either A. T. Murray/George Dimock, or Peter Green.
>>25428019Word for Word is either Lattimore or Green.
>>25428042/lit/ has you retards asking what translations of the odyssey to read every single day. use google you lazy faggot.
Fitzgerald is the best its not even close
>>25428183He’s not a word for word translator, thoughbeit. He’s an elevated register mid-century vibe translator.
Rodney Merrill is the most faithful when it comes to equivalency translating. Wilson’s style is idea-for-idea, which is a translation that tries to translate idiom into our idiom.
>>25428183He's very enjoyable (possibly the best first version for most folks, especially read alongside Ralph Hexter's 'A Guide to the Odyssey'), and he gets the tone and feel and music of it, but he's not strictly the most accurate, certainly not line-by-line or word-for-word accurate. Still my favorite, though Daniel Mendelsohn's might overtake it (I haven't read it all the way through yet).>>25428206He's certainly closer than 'vibe translation'.>>25428224>Wilson’s style is idea-for-ideaSetting her political changes aside, it's more like 'try frantically to jam at least the surface meaning into self-imposed short lines'
>>25428352>He's certainly closer than 'vibe translation'.That depends on what you mean.>>25428183His audiobook is unmatched. Fagles is only slightly worse than Fitz in that regard. Lattimore's text sounds clunky in audiobook form, but sounds alright if you yourself are reading it aloud, and the same goes for Pope, but for other reasons. Green's translation is best for reading silently imo.
>>25428352Wilson is ironically more faithful than Fitzgerald who uses the same meter lil tardtard
>>25428019>I want the driest, most procedural translation available, instead of a real poem by a real poetRead Chapman FFS.
>>25428019>Which is the most "faithful"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeric_Greek
>>25428019Yo Muse, pass the mic, let me spit for the OG,Master of twists, handling business low-key.Sacked the block of Troy, left the city in smoke,Spent ten years on the run 'til his gang was all broke.Peeped a million hoods, learned the rules of the street,Fought for his life, never tasting defeat.Tried to save his squad, keep the homies alive,But the fools were too reckless to ever survive.Jacked the Sun's pack, ate his cows for a meal,So the Big Boss up top put an end to the deal.Daughter of Zeus, stand up and let the track spin,Drop the needle now, let the story begin.
>>25430451Nigga shut the fuck up: nobody here is going to spend thousands of hours to learn some gay dead language.
>>25430661Ask a question, don't get mad at the answer. shit-eater.
>>25429353she isn't, and I doubt you've read either, nor would you even know what to look fordescribe three major elisions in Wilson's version of the Proem
>>25428019Fitzgerald or Green
>>25430727What the fuck do elisions in English pentameter have to do with fidelity to the Greek, you hopeless midwit, unless you are suggesting it coincide with Homer’s use of apocope?
>>25429353>complicatednigga wilson's translation may as well have illustrations, that shit was written for school children
>>25430800not an answer, gg
>>25428206And thus the best, but I agree that is not the specific criterium OP put forward.>>25428019If you really want word-for-word you want the murray version that has the greek on one page and a prose translation facing. It's a two volume thing.>>25430800Do you know what an elision is?
