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And Emily Wilson has a translation of the Iliad releasing in the US later this year - https://www.amazon.com/Iliad-Homer/dp/1324001801 https://www.amazon.com/Il
by hexis 3y ago
And Emily Wilson has a translation of the Iliad releasing in the US later this year - https://www.amazon.com/Iliad-Homer/dp/1324001801 https://www.amazon.com/Iliad-Homer/dp/1324001801
- thisisauserid 3y agoIn Emily Wilson's article comparing her excerpt with other famous translators, she conveniently leaves Lattimore out: https://web.archive.org/web/20230629122951/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/books/review/iliad-translations.html https://web.archive.org/web/20230629122951/https://www.nytim... I pulled my Lattimore off the shelf and compared them. I was unsurprised to find Wilson's iambic pentameter version over-simplified: "Strange woman! Come on now, you must not be too sad on my account." vs. Lattimore's: "Poor Andromachē! Why does your heart sorrow so much for me?"
- InitialLastName 3y agoButler: "My own wife, do not take these things too bitterly to heart" It seems to me that most of the other translations I can find are closer to the Wilson translation. I don't know any version of Greek, but the name Andromache doesn't appear in that line (book 6 line 486) at all, and nobody else seems to interpret the line as a rhetorical question. All this just to say, maybe Wilson's is closer to the original text?
- thisisauserid 3y agoGreat points. It still seems odd to me that she left Lattimore out when he's so often praised (on HN anyway).
- theoldlove 3y agoYeah the Greek here is (Il. 6.486): δαιμονίη μή μοί τι λίην ἀκαχίζεο θυμῷ: δαιμονίη is of disputed meaning, but basically a literal translation might run: Possessed woman, don’t be so upset in your heart for me. Here Lattimore doesn’t look so good.