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The Iliad, I had high expectations but it was even better than I expected.
by Bootvis 14y ago
The Iliad, I had high expectations but it was even better than I expected.
- david927 14y agoI just finished The Odyssey and it was also better than I expected. I'll move on to The Iliad next.
- jacoblyles 14y agoFagles translation?
- Bootvis 14y agoI read it in Dutch as translated by H.J. de Roy van Zuydewijn. If you want to read it in Dutch his translations of The Ilias and the Odyssey are highly recommended by me and more importantly my classics teacher. The Ilias is out of print but available in the second hand market at a premium. By the way: If you (edit: or anyone else ;) wants to read them I can loan them to you.
- jacoblyles 14y agoIf I could read Dutch I would accept your offer :) But alas, I cannot.
- cafard 14y agoOf the translations, I've read only Robert Fitzgerald's. Might I recommend, as elsewhere in the comments, War and the Iliad, an NYRB collection of essays by Simone Weil, Rachel Bespaloff, and Herman Broch? The Weil essay, which I first read long ago, strikes me now as saying more about Weil than about the Iliad; Bespaloff's essays I think excellent, and blurb quotes Robert Fitzgerald to that effect. Broch's essay is fascinating, but less focused on the poem.