BUZZING· 75%11m·2026-08-10·HistoryBONUS: Which Translation of the Odyssey should I read?
With the world gripped by Odyssey fever, Mary and Charlotte keep being asked the same question: which translation should I read? So here is a quick bonus episode to help you decide. Mary and Charlotte cover the waterfront of the modern translations (Emily Wilson and Daniel Mendelsohn), but also celebrate some past…
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“Hmm. 🤔 1. On the one hand, I agree with Mary and Charlotte that there are plenty of helpful translations of the Odyssey in English. Rieu (prose), Lattimore, Fitzgerald, Mandelbaum, Fagles, Lombardo, Green, Wilson, Mendelsohn, etc. And I ag…”
“No, ladies. Translation is not a matter of taste. I’m very sorry to hear such relativistic views coming from you. Wilson may indeed be a scholar, but that does not give her the right to distort the Homeric original or to translate words tha…”
“Good evening from Greece, very nice topic you raised and equally interesting what you said. For me who (as a Greek) can and do read Homer in the original, the best (by far the most accurate) translation is by Richmond Lattimore and I honest…”
“I find the EV Rieu Penguin Classics version ok. It’s prose.”
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