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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 ]
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.
[9]: 15 The Iliad is a narrative of a single episode spanning over the course of a ten-day-period from near the end of the ten years of the Trojan War. It centers on the person of Achilles , [ 10 ] who embodied the Greek heroic ideal.
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[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 ...