Thread: Thoroughly recommended - "Deluxe" Penguin eBook of "The Odyssey"
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Old 05-28-2009, 03:04 AM   #30
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The Fagles' translations are amazing...
I think, personally, that Richard Lattimore's translations of the "Odyssey" and the "Iliad" are hard to beat. Fagles' are great as poems in their own right, but they aren't so faithful to the original as translations.
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