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2. English translations of Homer - Wikipedia

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   English translations of Homer. 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 publication, with first lines provided to illustrate the style of the translation.

3. The Iliad or the Poem of Force - Wikipedia

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   The Iliad or the Poem of Force. " The Iliad, or The Poem of Force " (French: L'Iliade ou le poème de la force) is a 24-page essay written in 1939 by Simone Weil. [1][2] The essay is about Homer 's epic poem the Iliad and contains reflections on the conclusions one can draw from the epic regarding the nature of force in human affairs.

4. Emily Wilson (classicist) - Wikipedia

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   Seneca. Six Tragedies (English translation) Emily Rose Caroline Wilson (born 1971) is a British American classicist, author, translator, and Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. [1] In 2018, she became the first woman to publish an English translation of Homer 's Odyssey. [2][3] Her translation of the Iliad was ...

5. George Chapman - Wikipedia

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   From 1598 he published his translation of the Iliad in instalments. In 1616 the complete Iliad and Odyssey appeared in The Whole Works of Homer, the first complete English translation, which until Alexander Pope's (completed 1726) was the most popular in the English language and was the way most English speakers encountered these poems. The ...

6. Ever to Excel - Wikipedia

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   During a battle between the Greeks and Trojans, Diomedes is impressed by the bravery of a mysterious young man and demands to know his identity. Glaucus replies: "Hippolochus begat me. I claim to be his son, and he sent me to Troy with strict instructions: Ever to excel, to do better than others, and to bring glory to your forebears, who indeed ...

7. Homer - Wikipedia

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   Homer and His Guide (1874) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Today, only the Iliad and the Odyssey are associated with the name "Homer". In antiquity, a large number of other works were sometimes attributed to him, including the Homeric Hymns, the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, several epigrams, the Little Iliad, the Nostoi, the Thebaid, the Cypria, the Epigoni, the comic mini-epic ...

8. Iliad - Wikipedia

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   In the lectures On Translating Homer (1861), Matthew Arnold addresses the matters of translation and interpretation in rendering the Iliad to English; commenting upon the versions contemporarily available in 1861, he identifies the four essential poetic qualities of Homer to which the translator must do justice:

9. Johann Heinrich Voss - Wikipedia

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   Johann Heinrich Voss, 1797. Johann Heinrich Voss (German: Johann Heinrich Voß, pronounced [fɔs]; 20 February 1751 – 29 March 1826) was a German classicist and poet, known mostly for his translation of Homer 's Odyssey (1781) and Iliad (1793) into German.