Posted on 02/08/2007 12:45:41 PM PST by sharpink
I am currently reading "The Dryden Translation" of Plutarch's Lives. Are there any better translations?
Nobody has ever improved upon Dryden. But I think some of the lives are newly translated in Penguin paperbacks. And there's always the Loeb Classics versions, which are literal translations.
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14033
1894 edition, translated by Stewart and Long.
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/674
No date, translated by A. H. Clough.
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the Dryden translation, online:
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=674
Clough:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/674
John White translation "edited for boys and girls":
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2484
other versions:
http://www.questia.com/library/plutarch.jsp
more:
http://books.mirror.org/gb.plutarch.html
probably still others:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_Lives
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutarch
Sorry, mine's Dryden. Coincidentally, I've been reading (at) an anthology of Dryden's poetry of late.
Discourses on Satire and Epic Poetry, by Dryden
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext01/dscep10.txt
"...In the first place, if tears are arguments of cowardice, what shall I say of Homer's hero? Shall Achilles pass for timorous because he wept, and wept on less occasions than AEneas? Herein Virgil must be granted to have excelled his master; for once both heroes are described lamenting their lost loves: Briseis was taken away by force from the Grecians, Creusa was lost for ever to her husband. But Achilles went roaring along the salt sea-shore, and, like a booby, was complaining to his mother when he should have revenged his injury by arms..."
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