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Richmond Alexander Lattimore (May 6, 1906 – February 26, 1984) was an American poet and classicist known for his translations of the Greek classics, especially his versions of the Iliad and Odyssey.
Such was the action of Achilleus in feet and quick knees (Iliad 22.21-24, Richmond Lattimore, Translator). Priam , the King of Troy, was the first to spot the rapidly approaching Achilles. [ 4 ] Calling out to Hector, Priam warned Hector about the approaching Achilles and pleaded with Hector to return into the city. [ 5 ]
Translators and scholars have translated the main works attributed to Homer, the Iliad and Odyssey, from the Homeric Greek into English, since the 16th and 17th centuries. Translations are ordered chronologically by date of first publication, with first lines provided to illustrate the style of the translation.
[67] yet Stesichorus adapted Homeric motifs to create a humanized portrait of the monster, [68] whose death in battle mirrors the death of Gorgythion in Homer's Iliad, translated here by Richmond Lattimore: He bent drooping his head to one side, as a garden poppy bends beneath the weight of its yield and the rains of springtime;" (Iliad 8.306-8 ...
Lattimore, Richard, The Iliad of Homer, translated with an introduction by Richard Lattimore, University of Chicago Press, 1951. Liddell, Henry George , Robert Scott , A Greek-English Lexicon , revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones with the assistance of Roderick McKenzie, Clarendon Press Oxford, 1940.
[159]: 545 Bulfinch's Mythology, a book on Greek mythology published in 1867 and aimed at a popular audience, was described by Carl J. Richard as "one of the most popular books ever published in the United States". [164] George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion is a modern, rationalized retelling of the ancient Greek legend of Pygmalion.
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a full text of the Iliad in ancient Greek marginal critical marks, shown by finds of ancient papyri to reflect fairly accurately those that would have been in Aristarchus ' edition of the Iliad damaged excerpts from Proclus ' Chrestomathy , namely the Life of Homer , and summaries of all of the Epic Cycle except the Cypria