Author: Anonymous
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Published: 2015-08-12
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781297770258
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gordon Kendal
Publisher: MHRA
Published: 2016-09-16
Total Pages: 517
ISBN-13: 1781881219
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times; color: #ffffff} For George Chapman (1559-1634) his translation of Homer was ‘the work that I was born to do’. The publication of his Iliad and Odyssey together in 1616 was a landmark in English literature, but until now there has been no edition which modernises his spelling and punctuation and also provides detailed help in grasping his often obscure language, and in understanding how and why he translated Homer in the particular way he did. This edition of the Odyssey, a companion to Robert Miola’s edition of the Iliad, aims to bring Chapman’s rendering alive for the modern reader. Its literary, philosophical, and religious context is explained in an Introduction and in footnotes, and side- and end-glosses clarify Chapman’s English. His Odyssey is not only a stylistic masterpiece of seventeenth-century English: it constitutes a profound and moving interpretation – still relevant after four hundred years – of Homer’s story of the suffering and grace implicit in the human condition. Through its teeming diversity of events, settings, and characters Homer and his first English translator explore the question of what it means to be human in a complex and threatening world.
Author: George Chapman
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-11-24
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780331853155
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from The Odysseys of Homer, Vol. 1: Translated According to the Greek by George Chapman, With Introd, and Notes by Richard Hooper HE former impression of these volumes, consisting of a thousand copies. Has long been numbered amongst scarce books. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: James Bain (fl. 1817-1839.)
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Published: 1857
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13:
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