There's no such thing as a "timeless" translation - if you read something written by Victorians you'll get all sorts of overlaid assumptions and biases, just ones that are unfamiliar

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paytonjjones 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

For me, that unfamiliarity is precisely the point of reading something ancient.

	▲	Bootvis 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Then you need to read the original. A translator is a product of their time.

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suddenlybananas 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They didn't say they wanted a timeless translation.

	▲	adamdb 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Continually revising a text to be modern and context-aware would indeed make it timeless.