# George Chapman

- id: george-chapman
- dates: c. 1559–1634
- roles: translator

Elizabethan playwright whose Homer, finished in 1616, was the first complete one in English. Two centuries later a sonnet about first looking into it became more famous than the translation.

## Crossings

- 1598–1611: Iliad into English (translator) [attested]
- 1614–1615: Odyssey into English (translator) [attested]

## Sources

- George Chapman (1611). The Iliads of Homer.
- George Chapman (1616). The Whole Works of Homer.