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Mindful that adjectives generally fail to convey the qualities they describe, Fagles' translation of Homer is a triumph: the verse is supple and accesible; the diction is quick, light and often verges on thrilling; the idiom is modern, without being...
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Mindful that adjectives generally fail to convey the qualities they describe, Fagles' translation of Homer is a triumph: the verse is supple and accesible; the diction is quick, light and often verges on thrilling; the idiom is modern, without being anachronistic, such as when, in an early scene with the gods, Zeus warns Hera: "Obey my orders,/ for fear the gods, however many Olympus holds,/ are powerless to protect you when I come/ to throttle you with my irresistible hands." (!) As far as I can tell, these qualities are entirely consistent with those of the "original" Greek poem. Additionally, Fagles' Homer is seductive and frequently breathtaking. Read, for example (outloud!) everybody's favorite scene, Hector's farewell to Andromache and Astyanax, his wife and infant son in Book 6. Or the close of Book 8, where, during a temporary truce, the soldiers relax, huddling around their watchfires and the whole universe seems so silent one could hear a pin drop: "the air falls to a sudden,... See less 
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