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These are good, but to really bring them to life I recommend Christopher Logue, whose version doesn't even pretend to be a translation. There are some nice exce
by jsmith99 3y ago
These are good, but to really bring them to life I recommend Christopher Logue, whose version doesn't even pretend to be a translation. There are some nice excerpts in his obituary in The Economist https://archive.ph/eaCKf https://archive.ph/eaCKf
- jaycharliebee 3y agoI heartily recommend Logue's adaptation too! I'm not a regular poetry reader, nor a reader of the classics but his version really opened my mind to those worlds. I enjoy writers like Samuel Beckett and the weirder, darker end of sci-fi/fantasy (e.g. B. Catling's The Voorh), and Logue's War Music really just seemed to fit right into my taste.
- fsloth 3y agoOh, brilliant, I definetly need to get a hold of Logues translation. Thanks!
- anavette 3y agoCame here to recommend this. You can find a longer excerpt here: https://www.uvm.edu/~jbailly/courses/HomerTranslation/LogueWarMusicIliad16.pdf https://www.uvm.edu/~jbailly/courses/HomerTranslation/LogueW...