I'm really excited to dive into both because I'm fascinated by ancient Greek mythology/history but I'm having trouble picking which translation of both of these works to get. I'd like to feel like I'm reading an epic novel since I'm usually more into novelistic fiction than poetry but I heard that the most popular prose translation out there by WHD Rouse loses a lot of the depth and impact of the original material. I see on Amazon that the penguin deluxe Robert Fagles translation is at the very top, should I get those?
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