There certainly can be misguided or biased translations, but I routinely recommend old ones like the anonymous translations of Dumas and Hugo from the mid-19th

There certainly can be misguided or biased translations, but I routinely recommend old ones like the anonymous translations of Dumas and Hugo from the mid-19th c. and Pope's Homer. It's probably worth 2 minutes of research to make sure you didn't get a dud, though.