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Unread 03-30-2019, 03:00 AM
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"THE MIGHTY MOTHER, and her son who brings
The Smithfield Muses to the ear of Kings,
I sing. Say you, her instruments the great!
Call’d to this work by Dulness, Jove, and Fate;
You by whose care, in vain decried and curst,
Still Dunce the second reigns like Dunce the first;
Say how the Goddess bade Britannia sleep,
And pour’d her Spirit, o’er the land and deep."

Cheers,
John

Oh - Voss starts like this:
"Sage mir, Muse, die Thaten des vielgewanderten Mannes,
Welcher so weit geirrt, nach der heiligen Troja Zerstoerung,
Vieler Menschen Staedte gesehen, und Sitte gelernt hat,
Und auf dem Meere so viel' unnennbare Leiden erduldet,
Seine Seele zu retten, und seiner Freunde Zurueckkunft."

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Congratulations! Great article and a wonderful interview!

Martin
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Very enjoyable. Congrats!
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Not to detract from Aaron's glory, I have a personal affection (with a reservation or two) for Rodney Merrill's stress-based English hexameter versions of Homer in print from the University of Michigan Press. His Iliad is later and better, his Odyssey is fine:

The Iliad - The University of Michigan Press
https://www.press.umich.edu/1778880/iliad‎
https://www.press.umich.edu/1778880/iliad

In 2002, the University of Michigan Press published Rodney Merrill's translation of Homer's Odyssey, an interpretation of the classic that was unique in ...


The Odyssey - The University of Michigan Press
https://www.press.umich.edu/17212/odyssey‎

Translated by Rodney Merrill: With Introductions by Thomas R. Walsh and ... Translated into dactylic hexameter, this edition of the Odyssey recaptures the
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