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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.
Robert Fagles (/ ˈ f eɪ ɡ əl z /; [1] September 11, 1933 – March 26, 2008) [2] [3] was an American translator, poet, and academic. He was best known for his many translations of ancient Greek and Roman classics , especially his acclaimed translations of the epic poems of Homer .
Emily Rose Caroline Wilson (born 1971) is a British American classicist, author, translator, and Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. [1] In 2018, she became the first woman to publish an English translation of Homer's Odyssey.
The Odyssey (/ ˈ ɒ d ɪ s i /; [1] Ancient Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, romanized: Odýsseia) [2] [3] is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. Like the Iliad, the Odyssey is divided into 24 books.
Lattimore was a Fellow of the Academy of American Poets, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Philological Association, and the Archaeological Institute of America, as well as a Fellow of the American Academy at Rome and an Honorary Student at Christ Church, Oxford.
Robert Hass: 1993: Charles Simic: The Horse Has Six Legs: An Anthology of Serbian Poetry: Carolyn Kizer: 1992: John DuVal: The Discovery of America by Cesare Pascarella: Edmund Keeley: 1992: Andrew Schelling: Dropping the Bow: Poems of Ancient India: Edmund Keeley: 1991: Robert Fagles [5] [10] The Iliad by Homer: Gregory Rabassa: 1990: Stephen ...
A translation by Robert Fagles renders the quote as: "The world is a world of tears, and the burdens of mortality touch the heart." [3] Robert Fitzgerald, meanwhile, translates it as: "They weep here / For how the world goes, and our life that passes / Touches their hearts." [4]
A characteristic of Homer's style is the use of epithets, as in "rosy-fingered" Dawn or "swift-footed" Achilles.Epithets are used because of the constraints of the dactylic hexameter (i.e., it is convenient to have a stockpile of metrically fitting phrases to add to a name) and because of the oral transmission of the poems; they are mnemonic aids to the singer and the audience alike.