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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.
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 ...
Homer's Odysses [a] is an English translation of Homer's Odyssey by writer George Chapman. It was published around 1614 to 1615. It is widely known as the first complete translation of the poem into the English language. Chapman spent twenty-six years translating works traditionally attributed to Homer.
Frontispiece to George Chapman's translation of the Odyssey, the first influential translation in English. Translators and scholars have translated the main works attributed to Homer, the Iliad and Odyssey, from the Homeric Greek into English, since the 16th and 17th centuries. Translations are ordered chronologically by date of first ...
Richmond Alexander Lattimore was born to David and Margaret Barnes Lattimore in Paotingfu, China. His parents were working as English teachers for the Chinese government. His family returned the United States in 1920. [1] He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1926. [2]
Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, particularly stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other ...
Doctor Odyssey isn’t afraid to kill off its passengers. But do the scenes leading up to a patient’s death mean something larger within the lore of the show — the greater mythology that we ...
The Telegony was a short two-book epic poem recounting the life and death of Odysseus after the events of the Odyssey. In this mythological postscript, Odysseus is accidentally killed by Telegonus, his unknown son by the goddess Circe. After Odysseus's death, Telemachus returns to Aeaea with Telegonus and Penelope, and there marries Circe.