# Samuel Butler

- id: samuel-butler
- dates: 1835–1902
- roles: translator, author

Novelist of Erewhon who put both epics into plain prose at the century's end, convinced the Odyssey was written by a woman. His Homer is the one this library carries.

## Crossings

- 1898: Iliad into English (translator) [attested]
- 1900: Odyssey into English (translator) [attested]

## Sources

- Samuel Butler (1898). The Iliad of Homer, rendered into English prose.
- Samuel Butler (1900). The Odyssey, rendered into English prose.