Personally, I'm currently losing my mind over how
good Lord Derby's blank verse translation is.
I know it's not one of the Fitzgerald-Fagles-Lattimore trinity, and I know it's not Alexander Pope's masterpiece, but other than using the Roman names for the gods and translating Athena's Homeric Epithet as "Blue-eyed" instead of "Grey-eyed", "Bright-eyed", "Moon-eyed", "Owl-eyed", or any one of the other possibilities that doesn't make me do a double-take every time I see it because "Gray-eyed Athena" is what I'm used to from Riordan's work and CRUD I REVEALED MYSELF-
-escapes to wallow in not-sophisticated shame and read the Derby translation-
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it made a big point about how the Greek gods are false gods that people made up and just behave based on their crazy whims
unlike the Christian God, who is clearly good and clearly never was an asshole to anyone just to make a point
edit: i dunno whether i should not have made this post
That name sounds familiar, but I can't remember why.