As I am half-way in my Turner bio, I am gearing up for the next major read. Bedtime reading has become Thucydides’s The History of the Peleponnesian War.
I have opted for the Lattimore translation. I’m to understand the Rex Warner translation is another quality translation (which I have ordered). The latter is considered more reader-friendly, the former more “complex” and rigorous.
My reading pace will be slowed upon finishing the Turner bio because I will begin work on an essay on Descartes’s Meditations. I’ve done Socrates, Hobbes, and Sartre. So, I guess Descartes is next.
As I have no self control, my new bedtime reading will be Virgil’s Aeneid; I have ordered a new translation (Shadi Bartsch), which looks promising.
If anyone has any information or insight on the Thucydides/translation matter, I’m all ears.
