Facts about The Iliad Translations

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   Robert Fagles's 1990 translation of the Iliad became a bestseller and is widely used in university courses across the English-speaking world.

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   George Chapman's early 17th-century translation of the Iliad famously inspired John Keats to write his sonnet 'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer.

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   Emily Wilson became the first woman to publish an English translation of the Iliad, releasing her version in 2023.

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   Alexander Pope's verse translation of the Iliad, published between 1715 and 1720, made him financially independent and remains a landmark of English poetry.

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   Richmond Lattimore's 1951 translation of the Iliad is widely regarded as one of the most faithful English renderings of Homer's original Greek hexameter.

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