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 No.14115

I decided to get started on it.

I picked Aenid, Odyssey, Iliad aswell as Meditations and put them on my queue for reading.

Because these ancient books have a million english translations, I'd like to know if there's as best one around and where to get it.

I'd also like to know a good place on the internet to get books from, I only have access to a tiny school library, a bunch of weebshit sites/trackers for my LNs, a local government site that doesn't have many books and project gutenberg. I already don't like project gutenberg, because they love to add their shitty OC DONUT STEEL notices to the beginning and end of every book and the EPUBs are of poor quality.

So if someone could hand me that information it would be nice. I didn't have a picture to post so have Chaika.

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 No.14116

I'd like to see recommendations for translations too. Bump

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 No.14118

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>>14115

Typically, I choose Oxford translations for most things, but considering that that is likely not an option for you, I can help only on a few ones. Choose either Lattimore or Fagles for the Iliad and Odyssey. If you wish to dive further into classical literature, you can search for select texts translated by Loeb Classics online; Loeb Classics I've heard is a bit iffy in their translations but do provide the original text in their respective language, Greek or Latin. If you do decide to read Cicero, search for his texts as audiobooks on archive.org and should be able to have access to some texts. I recommend using archive.org for pdfs (these may only be obtained conveniently through audiobooks in contrast to the waitlist of regular "texts").

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 No.14121

>>14118

Oxford translations are top tier but have way too much British slang in them.

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 No.14130

>>14121

>too much British slang

Do you mean actual slang or british word choices?

Are you saying they refer to trash cans as rubbish bins, or that the entire thing is written in scottish english?

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 No.14131

>>14115

libgen.io, libgen.pw, b-ok.org and archive.org should have everything you're looking for, but I don't know if they have the exact translations you want.

>>14118

Are the Penguin translations any good?

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 No.14133

>>14130

Word choices.

I read Fathers and Sons by them and every time one of Bazarov's lines came up he ended it with "Mate." I fucking cringed at the word everytime it came up especially when he used it more and more as the book went on, I never envisioned him as the type of Brit fuckboy to use terminology like that in Russia of all places I had to re read the line outloud and replace "Mate" with "Comrade." because it was a better alternative.

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 No.14154

>>14131

I thought their translation of Thucydides' Peloponnesian War was good, although it referred to Hobbes' translation.

>>14133

That sounds terrible.

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 No.14158

>>14154

It was

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