Which translation of Homer’s Iliad is the best? Guide to the best & worst editions + recommendations

Translations of Homer's Iliad:
0:00 Introduction + Overview

Verse Translation's of Homers Iliad:

3:02 George Chapman Translation 1611-1615
Available by the #WordsworthClassics
3:48 Alexander Pope Translation
1715-1720
Available by #CollinsClassics
5:15 Richmond Lattimore translation
1951
Available by #UniversityofChicagoPress
5:44 Robert Fitzgerald translation
1974
Available by #OxfordUniversityPress and #EverymanLibrary edition
6:28 Robert Fagles translation
1990
Available by #PenguinPublishers
7:23 Stephen Mitchell translation
2011
Atria Books
8:18 Barry B. Powell translation
2013
Published by Oxford University Press
8:50 Caroline Alexander translation
2015
Published by #VintageClassics
9:17 Peter Green translation
2018
#UniversityofCaliforniaPress


10:21 Prose translations Homer's Iliad:

10:25 Samuel Butler translation
1898
Available by #BarnesandNobles and #ArcturusPublisher's
11:22 Martin Hammond translation
1987
Published by Penguin Publishers
11:49 E. V. Rieu translation
1950
Published by Penguin Publishers
12:30 Anthony Verity translation
2011
Published by Oxford University Press
13:16 W. H. D. Rouse translation
1938
Available by #SignetClassics






I was able to find 4 transactions of The Iliad on #projectgutenberg and #ibooks for free:

1. Translation by #AlexanderPope ( The ebook had more notes than the #collinsclassics edition ) 1715.
2. Literally translated with notes by Theodore Alois Buckley 1851.
3. Translation by Earl Cowper 1791.
4. Translation by 3 translators: W. Leaf, A. Lang and E. Meyers 1882. (Published by London Macmillan)


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