The illiad

The Illiad Homer Homer is one of the greatest writers; his works have action, romance, war, friendship, and much more. Since, Homers writings are not in English the Greek non-speaking majority of us rely on people to translate or interpret his works for us. The problem with that is everyone has their own interpretation of what homer is saying, and not only that but their own way of putting it into words. Chapman, Gladstone, Graves, …

…in neither Chapman’s nor Gladstone’s. The only problem I saw with Grave’s translation is that it was just simply too short. There should have been more written. This is where Fitzgeralds translation comes in. I feel it was clear, it had a nice rhythm to it, great detail, and a lot of information. Therefore Fitzgerald’s translation was the most effective to me. It had everything that the other writers had lacked.