Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity: The Trojan Epic : Posthomerica (Paperback)

from rpuchalsky

An interesting book, filling in the Troy Story between the Iliad and the Odyssey. It's difficult to tell whether the problem is in the original or the translation, but the quality of the writing doesn't seem especially good. (I'd guess the problem is mostly in the original -- there are scenes rep...

from DinadansFriend

There seems to have been a more recent translation than this Loeb classical Library edition . A.S. Way was probably an accurate rather than a lively translator. And it was prior to 1913 when completed this continuation of the Iliad. It fills in the gaps. I don't think I've seen a movie version of...

from jrgoetziii

Agreed but I think there's also a major problem in the translation as periods are missing at the end of several sentences and the like--gives Quintus a bad rap...