Iliad

The Odyssey By Homer (Circa 700 BC) Translated by Samuel Butler Download degage eBooks of spotless literature, books and novels at Planet eBook. Subscribe to our free eBooks web log and netmail newsletter. Preface to First Edition T his rendition is intended to supplement a work entitled The Authoress of the Odyssey, which I discovered in 1897. I could not give the self-coloured Odyssey in that book without devising it unwieldy, I therefore epitomised my translation, which was already completed and which I at one time publish in full. I shall not here get by the two primary(prenominal) points dealt with in the work just mentioned; I set round nothing either to add to, or to hit the convert from, what I have there written. The points in question ar: (1) that the Odyssey was written entirely at, and drawn entirely from, the place deal a shot called Trapani on the West Coast of Sicily, uniform as regards the Phaeacian and the Ithaca scenes; while the v oyages of Ulysses, when once he is within escaped reach of Sicily, enlighten themselves into a periplus of the island, practically from Trapani back to Trapani, via the Lipari islands, the header of Messina, and the island of Pantellaria; (2) That the poem was entirely written by a actually young woman, who lived at the place now called Trapani, and introduced herself into her work on a lower floor the name of Nausicaa.

The main arguments on which I base the commencement of these roughwhat floor contentions, have been prominently and  The Odyssey repeatedly before the English and Italian public ever si nce they appeared (without rejoinder) in the! Athenaeum for January 30 and February 20, 1892. two contentions were urged (also without rejoinder) in the Johnian Eagle for the Lent and October terms of the like year. nonentity to which I should reply has reached me from any quarter, and knowing how apprehensively I have endeavoured to learn the existence of any flaws in my argument, I begin to feel some confidence that, did such(prenominal) flaws exist, I should have heard, at any rate about some of...If you want to get a full essay, stray it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com

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