Bumbles answers “Which translation(s) would you recommend?”

Abdulla asked this question about The Iliad:

Which translation(s) would you recommend?

Bumbles Robert Fitzgerald's translation is quite good, and the one I would recommend most. the more mainstream Fagles translation I find really spoon feeds yo…moreRobert Fitzgerald's translation is quite good, and the one I would recommend most. the more mainstream Fagles translation I find really spoon feeds you the text, and in some ways I think dumbs it down a little. difference between Fagles´ and Fitzgerald´ is that by the end of reading the book you know what the word hecatomb means from one and not the other. Fitzgerald's translation is by no means difficult to read but it keeps certain irreplaceable words instead of simplifying it for better meter. Chapmans is a whole other dimension and one that I would least recommend-it's incredibly verbose and tiresome.(less)

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