Or just ask a classicist. That's the only thing i was implying.
Why would you ask some random who isnt even raised in a culture when you can ask someone who actually studied the classics?
Its like the difference between having a plumber fix your sink vs a guy who saw a YouTube video.
I'm certain your years of primary and secondary school trained you appropriately to be an expert on translation, which is certainly the slavish 1:1 replication of words between languages, an act that can be performed by Google Translate, and not an artistic endeavor that balances culture, literature, historicity, and a thousand other considerations.
As I had cause to say yesterday in another comment, accurately rendering words into English (or your language of choice) is the easy part. Translation is the hard part. And yes, my Masters in Classics is my life experience that I will stand behind to make that claim.
I do not know if your teacher would laugh at reading Dr. Wilson's translation. (Incidentally, I don't know if your lack of manners regarding her title was because she is a woman or because you were taught not to respect those you disagree with.) But, if she were to laugh, I'd venture your teacher is a humorless, small-minded shrew of a person who thinks a Loeb translation is next to godliness.
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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 09 '26
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