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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
modern prose translation... Not that I would mind a nice retelling either  Or even better, an alternate history version! I just love alternate histories... |
Nice! Ilium is both a retelling and and alternate history (not that I'm trying to talk you into reading it or anything!) If I come across a good prose translation of the Iliad I'll be sure to tell you. Verse translations sometimes take liberties with the text to just to fit it in with the verse. I am translating the Odyssey for a class, and I find that if I get stuck on something the verse translation is usually not very helpful in figuring out what is meant in the passage. A lot of people seem to like the Robert Fagles translation, but it is in verse and I haven't yet checked it out.