Tag: Homer

Original language: Greek. I read the Robert Fitzgerald translation. I really enjoyed the Fitzgerald translation. So fluid, and idiomatic English without talking down to the reader. I enjoyed Lattimore’s Iliad but this is a different level. I should look at reading more Fitzgerald translations in the future. I love the story about how Helen went…

Homer lived around the 9th or 8th century BC. Original language: Greek. I read the Richmond Lattimore translation. It’s beautiful in every way- characters, plot, language, poetry. The plot is driven by toxic masculinity. And the childish petulance of Achilles. He got mad at Agamemnon for taking his sex slave, Briseis. So Achilles begs his…