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Just finished Robert Fagles’ translation of Homer’s Iliad. What an absolute work of art. To think how long ago it was written and how amazing the imagery is is
by laichzeit0 6y ago
Just finished Robert Fagles’ translation of Homer’s Iliad. What an absolute work of art. To think how long ago it was written and how amazing the imagery is is mind bending. I can’t even fathom how good it would be if you could read the original greek. According to Plutarch, Alexander the Great kept a copy annotated by Aristotle himself under his pillow.
- chrononaut 6y agoAre you aware of any good audiobook versions of the Iliad? I imagine listening to the oral version could be interesting considering that's how most people historically would have consumed it.
- cafard 6y agohttps://librivox.org/search?q=Homer&search_form=advanced https://librivox.org/search?q=Homer&search_form=advanced
- cafard 6y agoThe University of Oklahoma Press keeps Clyde Pharr's Homeric Greek in print (https://www.oupress.com/books/10672205/homeric-greek https://www.oupress.com/books/10672205/homeric-greek). Now, in tackling it by oneself, it certain helps to have learned some Greek already, or at least to be comfortable with grammatical notions such as case, tense, voice, and mood, whether through Latin or perhaps German.
- no-s 6y ago>>Robert Fagles’ translation of Homer’s Iliad. What an absolute work of art. I read that by accident (reading the kids' summer reading list) and I must totally agree.