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Sold. There's an English translation on Project Gutenberg, under the name The Golden Asse. I'm going to give it a look.
by sevensor 9y ago
Sold. There's an English translation on Project Gutenberg, under the name The Golden Asse. I'm going to give it a look.
- apo 9y agohttp://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1666 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1666
- freefal 9y agoThat's the version from 1566. It's readable, but requires some extra effort to parse due to style, antiquated words and antiquated spelling.
- sevensor 9y agoIndeed, it's on par with Shakespeare, being from the same era. Modern editions of Shakespeare usually have had their spelling adjusted to modern taste, and this hasn't. Here's a sample: > I lighted off my horse, and wiping the sweat from every part of his body, I unbrideled him, and walked him softly in my hand, to the end he might pisse, and ease himself of his weariness and travell: and while he went grazing freshly in the field (casting his head sometimes aside, as a token of rejoycing and gladnesse) I perceived a little before me two companions riding, and so I overtaking them made a third. It's pretty easy going. (Unlike, say, Chaucer, which is definitely a struggle.)
- vollmond 9y agoIs there a known best translation? TFA didn't specify one.
- Jtsummers 9y agohttps://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/03/14/memoirs-of-an-ass-part-two/ https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/03/14/memoirs-of-an... From travisluis' post includes a list of translations and the author's opinions on each.
- _emacsomancer_ 9y agoyears ago I started comparing translations: http://jnanam.net/golden-ass/apu-ed.html http://jnanam.net/golden-ass/apu-ed.html