92Y/Paris Review Interview Series: Robert Fagles with Patricia Storace

92Y/Paris Review Interview Series: Robert Fagles with Patricia Storace
"There are about twenty-seven hundred years that separate the two traditions, and the trick (and the hard labor) is somehow to bring the two together. What I always do is read the Greek aloud until I begin to feel or find some English lurking between the Greek words, between the Greek lines, and I keep on mumbling like a maniac."
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[@JoachimderZweite]

This was a beautiful interview with a wonderful translator - the skill of the interviewer opens the flowers.

[@Polutipos]

I've always thought that Fagles was the greatest translator of the Greek poets that I have read. A lovely interview.

[@Pyaaang]

Wonderful interview! Thank you for posting.

[@tattoofthesun]

Thank You for posting this!!!!

[@agesilaustr]

Wonderful, and inspiring. Thank you for the upload!

[@li-jenhuang8435]

it's so stunning

[@bibfortunatv9303]

I know that fable I know that

[@eggymayo3271]

This sort of intellectual has been destroyed by modern society. We will never see his kind again

[@anthonycollins5671]

part of the difficulty of translating homers works,, when homer spoke to a scribe, he said for instance when Odysseus saw his mother, he was very sad, homer asked him did you get that,and the scribe wrote down the words did you get that, so Robert Fagles had to work out what was supposed to have been wrote properly and not the errors the scribe wrote,