Translating Euripides "The Trojan Women"

A project I'm currently working on to translate "The Trojan Women" by Euripides from its original Ancient Greek text to modern English.

Ἥκω λιπὼν �'ἴγαιον ἁλμυρὸν �™άθος
πόντου Ποσειδῶν, �"νθα Νηρῄδων χοροὶ
κάλλιστον ἴχνος ἐξελίσσουσιν ποδός.

 

I, Poseidon, come from the salty depths of the sleek Aegean Sea, where the Nereid’s graceful gait traces a dancing ring,

 

ἐξ ο�- γὰρ ἀμφὶ τήνδε Τρωικὴν χθόνα Φοῖ�™ός τε κἀγὼ λαΐνους πύργους πέριξ
ὀρθοῖσιν �"θεμεν κανόσιν,

For since I laid this lustrous Trojan ground with stone towers and built its borders,

ο�"ποτ᾽ ἐκ φρενῶν
ε�"νοι᾽ ἀπέστη τῶν ἐμῶν Φρυγῶν πόλει:

The fondness I feel for my Phrygian city has yet to depart from within me:

ἣ νῦν καπνοῦται καὶ πρὸς Ἀργείου δορὸς
ὄλωλε πορθηθεῖσ᾽:

And now it is under attack and withering to ash in the fatal flames of Argive furor:

ὁ γὰρ Παρνάσιος Φωκεὺς Ἐπειός, μηχαναῖσι Παλλάδος
ἐγκύμον᾽ ἵππον τευχέων ξυναρμόσας,
πύργων �"πεμψεν ἐντὸς ὀλέθριον �™ρέτας:

For the Phocian Epeius crawled from his home under Parnassus, to align with Pallas and deceived the battle through the fabricated surrender of a destructive wooden horse, pregnant with hiding rivals, which was let into my walls.

Reviews

[Moflo]

Translators are so underrated and I really commend your noble foray into such an art. I think you did a great job with this, granted I don't know ancient greek, I think your modern version lays just fine with the versions I'm familiar with. Good work.