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The epic follows a resourceful hero's prolonged voyage home after a great war, presenting episodic adventures involving sea passages, enchanted islands, perilous monsters, and divine interventions. Parallel strands depict the struggle at his household with intrusive suitors and the family members who await his return, while themes of cunning, loyalty, hospitality, identity, and fate are explored. Composed in twenty-four books and accompanied by shorter hymns and poems, the work moves between vivid narrative set pieces and reflective passages on human conduct and the gods' influence.

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Title: The Odysseys of Homer, together with the shorter poems

Author: Homer

Translator: George Chapman

Release date: May 8, 2015 [eBook #48895]
Most recently updated: October 24, 2024

Language: English

Credits: Phil Schempf

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ODYSSEYS OF HOMER, TOGETHER WITH THE SHORTER POEMS ***

The Odysseys of Homer

by Homer

Translated according to the Greek
by George Chapman

London: Published by
George Newnes Limited
Southhampton Street Strand W.C.

New York: Published by
Charles Scribner’s Sons


Contents

CHAPMAN’S INTRODUCTION.
CERTAIN ANCIENT GREEK EPIGRAMS TRANSLATED.
THE FIRST BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE SECOND BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE THIRD BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE FOURTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE FIFTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE SIXTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE SEVENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE EIGHTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE NINTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE TENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE ELEVENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE TWELFTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE THIRTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE FOURTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE FIFTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE SIXTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE SEVENTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE EIGHTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE NINETEENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE TWENTIETH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE TWENTY-FIRST BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE TWENTY-SECOND BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE TWENTY-THIRD BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE TWENTY-FOURTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS
THE BATRACHOMYOMACHIA
HYMNS
A Hymn to Apollo
A Hymn to Hermes
A Hymn to Venus (First Hymn)
A Hymn to Venus (Second Hymn)
A Hymn to Bacchus, or the Pirates
A Hymn to Mars
A Hymn to Diana
A Hymn to Venus (Third Hymn)
A Hymn to Pallas
A Hymn to Juno
A Hymn to Ceres
A Hymn to the Mother of the Gods
A Hymn to Lion-Hearted Hercules
A Hymn to Æsculapius
A Hymn to Castor and Pollux
A Hymn to Mercury
A Hymn to Pan
A Hymn to Vulcan
A Hymn to Phœbus
A Hymn to Neptune
A Hymn to Jove
A Hymn to Vesta
A Hymn to the Muses and Apollo
A Hymn to Bacchus
A Hymn to Diana
A Hymn to Pallas
A Hymn to Vesta and Mercury
A Hymn to Earth, the Mother of All
A Hymn to the Sun
A Hymn to the Moon
A Hymn to Castor and Pollux
A Hymn to Men of Hospitality
EPIGRAMS AND OTHER POEMS
To Cuma
In his Return to Cuma
Upon the Sepulchre of Midus
Cuma, refusing to eternize their State, etc.
An Essay of his begun Iliads
To Thestor’s Son inquisitive about the Causes of Things
To Neptune
To the City of Erythræa
To Mariners
The Pine
To Glaucus
Against the Samian Ministress or Nun
Written on the Council Chamber
The Furnace called in to sing by Potters
Eiresione, or the Olive Branch
To certain Fisher-Boys pleasing him with Riddles
The Translator’s Epilogue