I like the Emily Wilson translation of The Odyssey. It’s so easy and simple and really does a nice job of introducing the text and histories of the world through the philology and culture of Ancient Greek. It got me into the other translations, which I also love and enjoy as much, but Wilson’s as a stepping stone is such a nice breath of fresh air from the idyllic prose of the other translations. To each their own, but the controversy around a translation of an oral tradition written in a language most readers do not speak and this uproar of “faithfulness” is so banal and boring. Bc if faithfulness was the real concern, then why does Chapman rhyme? The original Greek doesn’t rhyme and yet Chapman rhymes and people scream faithful of it. Yet, Wilson attempts an accessible, introductory version of the odyssey that neither dilutes nor deviates from the texts original meaning.