[Aaron Poochigian]

The Society for Classical Studies has just run a feature on my poetry and translation, an interview interspersed with bits of my work:
https://classicalstudies.org/node/31672

[Catherine Chandler]

A wonderful interview. As a translator myself, I found your ways of getting around specific dialects especially illuminating. Congratulations!

[Jayne Osborn]

That's a lovely read, Aaron. Congratulations!

Jayne

[Martin Elster]

I enjoyed reading that interview, Aaron. Congrats!

[John Isbell]

A very nice review! it's good to hear your shoutout to Pope, he's my brother's favorite Englishing of Homer.

Cheers,
John

[Maryann Corbett]

Thanks for posting, Aaron! Enlightening and enjoyable. And congratulations!

[Aaron Poochigian]

Thank you, all. I am glad you find it enjoyable and even useful.

Yep, John, my freshman year in college, when everyone was getting high on weed, I got high on Alexander Pope.

[Erik Olson]

Love it! Congratulations! My freshmen year was my first taste of dope too. I mean Pope. Get out! Ha!

[Aaron Poochigian]

Yep. Aw, sweet "Rape of the Lock"

[John Isbell]

"Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring
Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing!"

I've got Pope's Homer in two elegant little Oxford World's Classics hardbacks, but truth to tell, I've barely opened them. Aaron, you've piqued my interest. I do like Pope - who writes better couplets? - and will have to give it a go. In the Tours of Dr. Syntax, from about 1800, Dr. Syntax takes flack for not knowing Pope's Homer until he mentions that he reads Homer in the Greek.
I once set out to translate The Aeneid because I was so unhappy with the translations I'd found. I got through about Book Two. Maybe I should give Dryden a go as well. :-)

Cheers,
John

Oh - the Aeneid I now have is the Fitzgerald (and the Dryden, somewhere). And my favorite Homer may be the Voss in German hexameters. My wife says there's an excellent Pushkin-era Homer in Russian as well.