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Title: Homer quotes
Post by: Larry L. on November 05, 2007, 06:00:17 PM
Hi,

From which translation of the Odyssey did you pull the quotes in Agon? They're quite nice.

Title: Re: Homer quotes
Post by: Darcy Burgess on November 05, 2007, 08:13:47 PM
Arg!

I was so ready to bust out some prime "I am so smart, S-M-R-T", perhaps a little "Ok brain, I don't like you, and you don't like me" for variety.

Stupid ancient greeks.
Title: Re: Homer quotes
Post by: John Harper on November 09, 2007, 07:58:00 AM
The Iliad quotations are from translations by Stanley Lombardo and Robert Fagles. They're both great, but I prefer Lomabardo's for its straightforward (yet still poetic) language.

The Argonautica quote is from a translation by E.V. Rieu.

The others are from Dan Simmon's novels Ilium and Olympos.
Title: Re: Homer quotes
Post by: Larry L. on November 19, 2007, 03:28:50 PM
Thanks. I hadn't considered Lombardo.