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09 Nov 2009, 4:42 pm

Anyone else read/in the midst of reading this? I think it is a great book. I am currently in the midst of book 11. Once I have finished reading it, I will probably watch Troy, though I have heard it is not a very good film (inaccurate in terms of the Iliad which, Ilium, is Greek for Troy). My father who is an artist has a whole sketchbook of drawings based on the Iliad/people in the story. he even has drawn Achilles shield and researched about it (he has written about it inside the book).



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09 Nov 2009, 9:26 pm

Latin is one of my hobbies, so I've read the Aeneid, but I've never been drawn to Greek, so the Iliad has never crossed my desk.

That being said, I am very familiar with the story, and I have read Latin translations of some of the excerpts.


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10 Nov 2009, 1:32 pm

visagrunt wrote:
Latin is one of my hobbies, so I've read the Aeneid, but I've never been drawn to Greek, so the Iliad has never crossed my desk.

That being said, I am very familiar with the story, and I have read Latin translations of some of the excerpts.


Ah I've translated some of book IV of the Aeneid from latin. The Iliad which I am reading at the moment is already in English though and it is also in continuos prose.



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13 Nov 2009, 5:29 pm

Humphrie4 wrote:
visagrunt wrote:
Latin is one of my hobbies, so I've read the Aeneid, but I've never been drawn to Greek, so the Iliad has never crossed my desk.

That being said, I am very familiar with the story, and I have read Latin translations of some of the excerpts.


Ah I've translated some of book IV of the Aeneid from latin. The Iliad which I am reading at the moment is already in English though and it is also in continuos prose.


Why are you doing that? Translating the Iliad into Latin?
Didnt the ancient Romans do that work for you?



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15 Nov 2009, 12:28 am

people translate books from language to language all the time. It's a good way to learn more deeply the source language (urtext, or however you spell it...;)
it has a long tradition going back to the Greeks...if not farther...


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