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I'm a fan of Lombardo's: Speak, Memory – Of the cunning hero The wanderer, blown off course time and again After he plu
by joeyo 9y ago
I'm a fan of Lombardo's:
Speak, Memory –
Of the cunning hero
The wanderer, blown off course time and again
After he plundered Troy's sacred heights.
Speak
Of all the cities he saw, the minds he grasped,
The suffering deep in his heart at sea
As he struggled to survive and bring his men home
But could not save them, hard as he tried –
The fools – destroyed by their own recklessness
When they ate the oxen of Hyperion the Sun,
And that god snuffed out their day of return.
Of these things,
Speak, Immortal One,
And tell the tale once more in our time.
His Iliad is excellent too.
- twoodfin 9y agoSeconded on Lombardo. I picked it up 17 years ago after seeing him on CSPAN discussing his translation with a panel including Christopher Hitchens. Thankfully still available: https://www.c-span.org/video/?160063-1/discussion-homers-odyssey https://www.c-span.org/video/?160063-1/discussion-homers-ody...