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20783649 No.20783649 [Reply] [Original]

The Rieu translation is the best…there, I’ve said it. Homeric Greek cannot be translated effectively into English with verse. The Rieu prose translation is better and more readable

>> No.20783746

>>20783649
> Not reading in the original language
NGMI

>> No.20784238
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20784238

>translate iliad into prose
>add line breaks
>call it a verse translation

>> No.20784245

Is it Achilles or Patroclus who can recognise the other based on their steps?

>> No.20784254

>>20783649
You have to translate it yourself for it to be a good experience. Otherwise you lose all the poetic aspects that make the already great story into such a work of art. Retard

>> No.20784921

>>20783649
>Iliad
I never read it due to it being genreshit, is it worth it?

>> No.20785347

I agree.

>> No.20785589

>>20784921
What genre? Epic?

>> No.20785612

redpill is that literature began and ended here. the rest is just a mega cope

>> No.20785623

>>20784921
You should stop listening to readlets on a Rhodesian coke smoking forum