translator · author

Samuel Butler

1835–1902

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 , Greek English · translator · London attested
1900 Odyssey , Greek English · translator · London attested

Sources

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