The Iliad of Homer

Name: The Iliad of Homer
Author: Homer

by Homer

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Project Gutenberg has several editions of this eBook: #51355 (Translated by George Chapman) #6130 (Translated by Alexander Pope) #16452 (Translated by William Cowper) #22382 (Translated by Theodore Alois Buckley) #6150 (Translated by Edward, Earl of Derby) #3059 (Translated by Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf and Ernest Meyers) #2199 (Translated by Samuel Butler)

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The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper

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Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

New York, D. Appleton & Co., 346 & 348 Broadway, 1860

Credits

Produced by Ted Garvin, Melissa Er-Raqabi, Fred Robinson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2005-08-05

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Epic poetry, Greek -- Translations into English Achilles (Mythological character) -- Poetry Trojan War -- Poetry

About the author

Homer

-750–-650

Tradition remembers this ancient Greek poet as the voice behind the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epics that shaped storytelling for centuries. Even though little can be known for certain about the historical person, the poems linked to him still feel vivid, dramatic, and deeply human.

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