BIBLIOGRAPHY

English Translations

Besides the older versions of Chapman, Pope, and Cowper These represent the standard historical translations: George Chapman (1616) in rhyming couplets, Alexander Pope (1725) in elegant Augustan verse, and William Cowper (1791) in blank verse., there may be cited the verse translations by P. S. Worsley, Edinburgh and London, Wm. Blackwood and Sons; William Morris, London, Reeves and Turner; J. W. Mackail, London, John Murray; A. S. Way, London, Macmillan; and H. B. Cotterill (in hexameters The traditional meter of ancient Greek epic poetry, consisting of six rhythmic units per line.), Boston, Dana, Estes and Co.

There are prose versions by Butcher and Lang, London, Macmillan; G. H. Palmer, Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Co.; and Samuel Butler, London, Longmans, Green and Co. Samuel Butler, the author of Erewhon, famously argued that the Odyssey was written by a young Sicilian woman.

Books about Homer

Out of the multitude of books about Homer the following may be cited as of high interest to the student of the Odyssey:—

Jebb, Homer; Lang, Homer and the Epic, Homer and his Age, The World of Homer; Leaf, Homer and History; Arnold, On Translating Homer; Murray, The Rise of the Greek Epic, second edition; Cauer, Fundamental Questions of Homeric Criticism original: "Grundfragen der Homerkritik"; Wilamowitz-Möllendorff, Homeric Investigations original: "Homerische Untersuchungen"; Seeck, The Sources of the Odyssey original: "Die Quellen der Odyssee"; Bérard, The Phoenicians and the Odyssey original: "Les Phéniciens et l'Odyssée"; Rothe, The Odyssey as Poetry original: "Die Odyssee als Dichtung".

Works of a purely linguistic or grammatical character are omitted in the above list. Mention may, however, be made of the Homeric Lexicon of Ebeling (3 vols., Leipzig, 1885); Monro's Grammar of the Homeric Dialect (Oxford, second edition, 1891); and van Leeuwen's Handbook of Epic Speech original: "Enchiridium Dictionis Epicae" (Leyden, 1894).