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The Odyssey of Homer is an English translation of the Odyssey of Homer by American classicist Richmond Lattimore, published in 1965. Lattimore's faithfulness to the original Homeric Greek, replicating the use of dactylic hexameter and epithets , made it a staple of undergraduate classical studies programmes.
George Chapman worked on his translations—Iliad, Odyssey and lesser texts classically attributed to Homer—for twenty-six years from 1598 to 1624. [2] [3] He was the first person to translate the Homeric Hymns into English. [4] Chapman said he was visited and inspired by the ghost of Homer. [3]
Ohio University Press Shewring, Walter: 1906–1990, Professor of classics, poet [165] 1980: Oxford, Oxford University Press Goddess of song, teach me the story of a hero. This was the man of wide-ranging spirit who had sacked the sacred town of Troy and who wandered afterwards long and far. [166] Hammond, Martin: born 1944, Headmaster ...
The Odyssey of Homer. Translated by Lattimore, Richmond. New York: Harper & Row. Jaurretche, Colleen (2005). Beckett, Joyce and the art of the negative. European Joyce studies. Vol. 16. Rodopi. ISBN 978-90-420-1617-0. Jones, Peter V. (1996). Homer's Odyssey: A Companion to the English Translation of Richmond Lattimore. Classical studies series ...
The Odyssey is one of the oldest recorded stories in existence, dating back to the 7th or 8th century BCE. Homer's epic poem in 24 books follows the King of Ithaca around the Mediterranean as he ...
Richmond Alexander Lattimore (May 6, 1906 – February 26, 1984) was an American poet and classicist known for his translations of the Greek classics, especially his versions of the Iliad and Odyssey.
Odysseus is weeping at the court of Alcinous as the blind minstrel Demodocus sings about Odysseus and Achilles at Troy while playing the harp.. In the Odyssey by Homer, Demodocus (/ d ɪ ˈ m ɒ d ə k ə s /; Ancient Greek: Δημόδοκος, romanized: Dēmódokos) is a poet who often visits the court of Alcinous, king of the Phaeacians on the island of Scherie.
The Odyssey of Homer is an English translation of the Odyssey of Homer by British poet Alexander Pope.It was published in five volumes between 1725 and 1726. As with his translation of the Iliad, Pope changed the metre from the dactylic hexameter of the original into heroic couplets, rhyming pairs of lines in iambic pentameter.