Forget which translation of Homer is the best. Tell me about the worst Homer translation.
The Latin translation by Publius Baebius Italicus. Not only does he take extreme liberties with the phrasing, he arranges the opening stanzas so the first letters of each line spells out his name.
>>25546174Romans really had no taste outside of Lucretius.
pope
>>25546166Wilson, how is that even a question?
>>25546166Nolan's
>>25546509For accuracy, Pope's is far worse than Wilson's. she oversimplifies, but for the most part,at least she tries to translate the greek text accurately. Pope's translation on the other hand is not Homer at all, but an original english poem loosely based on the events of the Odyssey and Iliad.
>>25546174Isn't it more like a verse summary, being only a fraction of the length?
>>25548443Why the fuck are faggots unironically defending emily wilson on /lit/? What the fuck happened to this place?
>>25548443Where does Pope get it wrong? Specific examples?
>>25546166I have a Swedish translation that is translated from a Danish translation. The whole thing reads like a episode of Trailer Park Boys with Everyone behaves like drunken retards, tripping over tripods and shit for laughs. It's horribly bad but I'm convinced that it's closer to the original than any other translation I've read.
>>25546174kek, based.
>>25548617I have read a Portuguese translation of an American adaptation and it's worse.They just throw rocks at each other so they can steal the armour of the deceased and fuck off.
>>25546509Because shit like this >>25548617 >>25548667 exist. There are thousands of translations by people who are barely literate and most certainly don't read Homeric Greek.
>>25548667>They just throw rocks at each other so they can steal the armour of the deceased and fuck offI mean, that does happen in the book.
>>25546166It's actually whatever translation YOU posted in the >best Homer translation thread.
Definitely the hip-hop version. They even squeezed in a jive-talking robot.
The worst version of The Odyssey is definitely Hobbes. Totally bland. >Tell me, O Muse, th’ adventures of the man>That having sack’d the sacred town of Troy,>Wander’d so long at sea; what course he ran>By winds and tempests driven from his way:>That saw the cities, and the fashions knew>Of many men, but suffer’d grievous pain>To save his own life, and bring home his crew;Odysseus is just "the man".
>>25551823Didn't know Hobbes did it, why is his translation never mentioned?
>>25551823T.E. Lawrence
>Reading a translation of anything.Pleb.
>>25551823Funny. I was reading the introduction to Leviathan yesterday and learned that Hobbes translated Homer. I immediately thought about this thread and asking if anyone had read it.>>25552122Until maybe 100 years ago every second intellectual fluent in Ancient Greek (meaning most of them worth their salt) translated Homer because there wasn't much else to do. There's uncountable translations never mentioned, many of them perhaps worthy of this thread.
