Comment on Which Odyssey translation wins a blind reading test?parentComments−oliculipolicula1moYes, how would the average classicist or modern Greek translate polymetis? Polytropos? Into current day American vernacularLattimore's "the man of many ways" sounds closer to the original than Wilson's "complicated man" but neither sounds made up
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Yes, how would the average classicist or modern Greek translate polymetis? Polytropos? Into current day American vernacular
Lattimore's "the man of many ways" sounds closer to the original than Wilson's "complicated man" but neither sounds made up