<story><title>The First Woman to Translate the ‘Odyssey’ into English</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/magazine/the-first-woman-to-translate-the-odyssey-into-english.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CalChris</author><text>I always liked Samuel Butler&amp;#x27;s idea in &lt;i&gt;The Authoress of the Odyssey&lt;/i&gt; that the Odyssey was written by a woman. I&amp;#x27;m looking forward to Wilson&amp;#x27;s translation.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.kenyonreview.org&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;authoress-odyssey&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.kenyonreview.org&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;authoress-odyssey&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;My favorite &lt;i&gt;Iliad&lt;/i&gt; is Lattimore. I&amp;#x27;ve tried others (Fagles, Green, Lombardo) and always come back to Lattimore. I remember when I first read it, my prof said we didn&amp;#x27;t have to read the Catalog of the Ships. I actually love that section now. It&amp;#x27;s like the opening credits.&lt;p&gt;My favorite &lt;i&gt;Odyssey&lt;/i&gt; is Fitzgerald. Fagles is good too.&lt;p&gt;Now if you want a deeply bad translation, a fraud really, Mitchell is the worst. He leaves out chapters. Edward Luttwak ripped it apart.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lrb.co.uk&amp;#x2F;v34&amp;#x2F;n04&amp;#x2F;edward-luttwak&amp;#x2F;homer-inc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lrb.co.uk&amp;#x2F;v34&amp;#x2F;n04&amp;#x2F;edward-luttwak&amp;#x2F;homer-inc&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thinkingemote</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m going to speak up for Stephen Mitchell&amp;#x27;s work. I spent a good hour in the bookshop comparing translations and his rang truest, read easiest and sounded more lyical in a way. It wasnt dry and accurate or academic that&amp;#x27;s for sure but it was in the common tongue. Also his missing chapters were included at the end as appendices and his reasons were given for that inclusion.</text></comment>
<story><title>The First Woman to Translate the ‘Odyssey’ into English</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/magazine/the-first-woman-to-translate-the-odyssey-into-english.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CalChris</author><text>I always liked Samuel Butler&amp;#x27;s idea in &lt;i&gt;The Authoress of the Odyssey&lt;/i&gt; that the Odyssey was written by a woman. I&amp;#x27;m looking forward to Wilson&amp;#x27;s translation.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.kenyonreview.org&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;authoress-odyssey&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.kenyonreview.org&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;authoress-odyssey&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;My favorite &lt;i&gt;Iliad&lt;/i&gt; is Lattimore. I&amp;#x27;ve tried others (Fagles, Green, Lombardo) and always come back to Lattimore. I remember when I first read it, my prof said we didn&amp;#x27;t have to read the Catalog of the Ships. I actually love that section now. It&amp;#x27;s like the opening credits.&lt;p&gt;My favorite &lt;i&gt;Odyssey&lt;/i&gt; is Fitzgerald. Fagles is good too.&lt;p&gt;Now if you want a deeply bad translation, a fraud really, Mitchell is the worst. He leaves out chapters. Edward Luttwak ripped it apart.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lrb.co.uk&amp;#x2F;v34&amp;#x2F;n04&amp;#x2F;edward-luttwak&amp;#x2F;homer-inc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lrb.co.uk&amp;#x2F;v34&amp;#x2F;n04&amp;#x2F;edward-luttwak&amp;#x2F;homer-inc&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slowmovintarget</author><text>+1 for Lattimore&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;Iliad&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I tried to read Fagles&amp;#x27; and kept going back to Lattimore&amp;#x27;s. For the &lt;i&gt;Odyssey&lt;/i&gt; though, Fagles&amp;#x27; translation was very good.</text></comment>