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  2. Odyssey (George Chapman translation) - Wikipedia

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    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]

  3. English translations of Homer - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Odyssey - Wikipedia

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    The Odyssey (/ ˈ ɒ d ɪ s i /; [1] Ancient Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, romanized: Odýsseia) [2] [3] is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.It is one of the oldest surviving works of literature and remains popular with modern audiences.

  5. Covering cherub - Wikipedia

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    Found originally in Ezekiel, the covering cherub was adapted for use by, among others, both Milton and William Blake.In the Blakean vision, the covering cherub was a composite but always negative figure of truth's guardian turned destructive, [1] of a cruel and hardened Selfhood; [2] and it was from Blake that in 1967 Harold Bloom derived his concept of the covering cherub as a literary ...

  6. Odyssey (Emily Wilson translation) - Wikipedia

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    The Odyssey is a 2017 translation of Homer's Odyssey by classicist Emily Wilson. It was published by W. W. Norton & Company. Wilson, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, retained the line count and blank verse of the original Homeric Greek but changed the meter from dactylic hexameter to iambic pentameter. Wilson's translation is the ...

  7. Boar's tusk helmet - Wikipedia

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    Homer specifies that the helmet given by Meriones to Odysseus was an heirloom, passed down through the generations, a detail which perhaps suggests its value. Although the number of plates required to make an entire helmet varies – anything from 40 to 140 can be required [ 3 ] – it has been estimated that forty to fifty boars would have to ...

  8. Gates of horn and ivory - Wikipedia

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    Homer greatly influenced Greek literature as a whole. [4] Plato refers to the two gates in his dialogue Charmides: Socrates: "Listen then," I said, "to my dream, to see whether it comes through horn or through ivory." [5] A reference to the Odyssean image also appears in the late (c. AD 400) epic poet Nonnus:

  9. 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 ...