Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    poetry · 8th century BCE · 4 crossings

    Odyssey

    ὈδύσσειαOdysseia

    Homer, in Greek

    The homecoming epic, carried west in the same Florentine project that moved the Iliad, and re-voiced in English in every century since.

    The chain

    c. 725 BCE Greek original

    written by Homer

    1. c. 1360–1362 Greek Latin translation attested

      translated by Leontius Pilatus for Giovanni Boccaccio in Florence

      The companion crossing to the Latin Iliad, from the same household project.

    2. 1614–1615 Greek English translation attested

      translated by George Chapman in London

      Twelve books in 1614, the complete Odyssey in 1615; The Whole Works of Homer of 1616 collected the pair into the first complete English Homer.

    3. 1725–1726 Greek English translation attested

      translated by Alexander Pope in London

      Half the books were quietly drafted by William Broome and Elijah Fenton under Pope's name and polish; the subscription model did not advertise the workshop.

    4. 1900 Greek English translation attested

      translated by Samuel Butler in London

      Butler's prose Odyssey, written by a man convinced the original was a young woman's book. The text carried in this library is the Perseus revision by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.