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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.
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 ]
Since 1950, there have been several English translations: Richmond Lattimore's version (1951) is "a free six-beat" line-for-line rendering in often unidiomatic, often archaic English. Robert Fitzgerald's version (Oxford World's Classics, 1974) uses shorter, mostly iambic lines and numerous allusions to earlier English poetry.
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.
At the beginning of Greek literature stand the two monumental works of Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey. [ 9 ] : 1–3 The figure of Homer is shrouded in mystery. Although the works as they now stand are credited to him, it is certain that their roots reach far back before his time (see Homeric Question ).
Owen Lattimore (1900–1989), American educator, author and target of Sen. Joseph McCarthy Eleanor Frances Lattimore (1904–1986), American author and illustrator of children's books Richmond Lattimore (1906–1984), American poet and translator of the Iliad and Odyssey
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Richmond Lattimore; Peter Meineck; Robert Potter; Paul Roche; Thomas Sheridan; David R. Slavitt; Isaac William Stuart (1809–1861) Lewis Theobald (1688–1744) Paul Woodruff; Theodore Dwight Woolsey; Eduard Wunder