Flip around a bit, and one can often find traces of women in these volumes.

Run down the complete bibliography, and a pattern already hinted in my list of notables becomes pronounced: name after name after name belongs to a man. To Chapman we might thus reply: Once seven Greek cities strove to be Homer’s nurse now seventy tomes vie to be his English verse. The opening decades arion 26.3 winter 2019 of our century have been especially high-yielding-more than ten new Iliads and eight new Odysseys have appeared in print alongside fresh editions of twentieth-century favorites. Anglo-American output of new English Homers has been steady ever since. The rate of Homeric production then intensified in the nineteenth century, becoming in Edith Hall’s apt phrase a “national pastime” in Victorian Britain-and, I would add, in the United States too.3 In the 1860s, a new English Iliad or Odyssey debuted nearly every year, making Matthew Arnold, then Professor of Poetry at Oxford, seem prescient in selecting “On Translating Homer” as the topic for his 1860 lecture series. Alexander Pope’s versions (Iliad, 1715–1720 Odyssey, 1726) were bestsellers in the next century, yet others soon enough sought to better them, including the poet William Cowper (Iliad, 1791 Odyssey, 1809). An octogenarian Thomas Hobbes published an Odyssey translation in 1675 and an Iliad the following year. Yet within a few decades challengers appeared. In “Englishing ” Homer (as he put it), Chapman had vanquished not only local rivals but also the whole international field.2 Through Chapman, England bore Homer anew. Indeed, the title page of that Iliad boasted, “Never before in any language truly translated” (italics mine). It suggests a historical parallel with the translator’s own feat-for this Odyssey appeared on the heels of Chapman’s 1611 Iliad, the first complete English translation of Homer directly from the Greek. On Women Englishing Homer RICHARD HUGHES GIBSON Seven kingdoms strove in which should swell the womb / That bore great Homer whom Fame freed from tomb,” so begins the fourth of “Certain ancient Greek Epigrams ” that George Chapman placed at the head of his Odyssey at its debut in 1615.1 The epigram was no mere antiquarian dressing for the text. Visit our lists on bookshop.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) This time we read Homer Tarantino's gory classic of bromanticism - The Iliad Subscribe! Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016.

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