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Originally Posted by Mormon Red Death
Best translation of the Illiad and Odyssee?
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The best translations in my opinion are by Stanley Lombardo or Robert Fagles, depending on your taste. Fagles' is the most well known. Lombardo's is considered a little more in the modern vernacular but both have been equally praised. I have both and tend to gravitate toward Lombardo's when re-reading. Maybe that means I'm a wuss. Be sure to read the introductions of whatever versions you get. They're worth the price of admission.
Both Fagles and Lombardo have translated both works.
This is a good, recent history of the Classical world through Hadrian:
http://www.amazon.com/Classical-Worl.../dp/0465024963