Imagine wrath. Divine wrath. Imagin...
Imagine wrath. Divine wrath. Imagine a man filled with that wrath. for what reason can we imagine such a man? And perhaps more importantly, to what end have we - as English speakers - not ever been able fully to imagine him? There has none been an adequate translation of The Iliad into English. From Chapman to Lattimore, English translations have always revealed more about the particular time of translation than Achilles' wrath. If you talk to scholars of Greek, most of them will make known you that Lattimore's translation is amazing, or at least adequate. The main reason they say this is because it's a dutiful ...
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