1.3 What are the best translations of ...? (Classical Studies)
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This article is from the Classical Studies FAQ, by Richard M. Alderson III alderson@netcom2.netcom.com with numerous contributions by others.
1.3 What are the best translations of ...? (Classical Studies)
Good question :-)
Translations into English of most of the popular classical authors may be found
along with great authors of other periods in the Penguin Classics series. Some
of these, it has been noted, are of greater literary merit than others; that
may simply be the way of translations, from whatever source.
The Oxford World Classics series also has a large number of good translations
of classical works, not entirely overlapping the Penguin Classics in coverage.
Many who have studied Greek and Latin since the early 1900s have been grateful
for the existence of the Loeb series (red covers for Latin, green for Greek) of
facing-page translations of a number of important, and even better, of entirely
unimportant, authors. These are published jointly by Harvard and Oxford.
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