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Norton's Metamorphoses has rapping muses.

They're trying so hard to subvert Homer, it's quite sad desu

It is pretty stupid. The fact that Emily Wilson is currently retranslating The Odyssey because she was unsatisfied with her first attempt is enough to tell you not to read her version. But even disregarding the quality of the translation, the point of a critical edition should be to present the version most widely read by critics. What’s the point of including critical essays with the text when the essays were written decades before Wilson’s translation was even completed?

>the point of a critical edition should be to present the version most widely read by critics

Should it not be the most academically accepted by scholars? I mean, it its literary criticism at stake, the edition should at least be accurate translation wise