Homer

Standard Name: Homer

Connections

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Wealth and Poverty Anne Marsh
Their move back to England was facilitated by a legacy of £5,000 from Anne's father.
Heath-Caldwell, J. J. “Letters, References and Notes (1780-1874), Relating to James Caldwell and Anne Marsh (Marsh-Caldwell)”. Ancestors and Relatives of JJ Heath-Caldwell.
1839-1842
They bought the estate the previous year for £13,000 (including standing timber worth £3,280). AM sold the house, estate...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Isabella Hamilton Robinson
Kate Summerscale writes that these diary entries magically remade the scenes that had passed, no longer dissecting her longings but instead allowing them to infuse her recollections . . . the diary could conjure up...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Catharine Trotter
The letters published by Birch reflect an intellect dealing in literary as well as moral debate. To Thomas Burnet of KemnayCT wrote of religious and philosophical matters; he was her link to currents of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Christina Rossetti
Initially entitled A Fight over the Body of Homer,
Rossetti, Christina. The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Editor Crump, Rebecca W., Louisiana State University Press.
1: 301
it features a disagreement between two sisters, one of whom is reading Homer and hankering after a more fulfilling and actively heroic pursuit...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Grant
Her range of literary reference and comment is wide: as well as Richardson (whose Clarissa she unequivocally praises),
Grant, Anne. Letters from the Mountains. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme.
2: 45-8
it encompasses Blair , Sterne and Smollett as travel-writers, and Homer . Grant charges Samuel Johnson
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane Ellen Harrison
Myths of the Odyssey represents one of Harrison's earliest efforts to use non-literary works of art, especially painted vases, to chart the formation of Greek myths. Here, she positions scenes from translated versions of Homer
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Dacier
This work is a sequel to Des Causes de la Corruption du Goût because it continues the project of defending Homer , though against a different adversary.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ruth Padel
Writing about depictions by Homer and the Greek tragedians of madness, RP begins with the elusive source of the quotation which gave her her title (in English Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ursula K. Le Guin
Though she called her blog trivially personal, the titles printed here include Papa H (on Homer ) and On Anger (including motivating political anger) as well as The Annals of Pard (her cat).
Textual Production Ann Taylor Gilbert
ATG later remembered that she was writing poetry at seven or eight. She also planned large literary projects
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
1: 46
including a prequel to Homer 's Iliad. Like Frances Burney , she tried to...
Textual Production Mrs Ross
MR published The Modern Calypso; or, Widow's Captivation, A Novel.
The non-modern Calypso alluded to is the island enchantress in Homer 's Odyssey, who keeps Odysseus in thrall for seven years. This novel...
Textual Production Agnes Mary Clerke
AMC published a work of classical scholarship, Familiar Studies in Homer.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Margaret Atwood
MA published one of the two opening titles in Canongate 's Myths series, a feminist retelling of Homer 's Odyssey entitled The Penelopiad, The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus.
“Start the Week”. BBC Radio 4.
Textual Production Anne Dacier
AD tackled the summit of classical translation with her French rendering of Homer 's Iliad: L'Iliade d'Homère, traduite en françois avec des remarques.
Spencer, Samia I., editor. Writers of the French Enlightenment I. Gale.
Textual Production Anna Seward
AS drafted the first three books of an epic poem entitled Telemachus, adapted from François Fénelon 's Télémaque, 1699. (She also wrote a defence of Pope 's Homer translations against the strictures of Joseph Spence .)
Lucas, Edward Verrall. A Swan and Her Friends. Methuen.
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Timeline

Later 8th century BC: This time probably saw the genesis of Homer's...

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Later 8th century BC

This time probably saw the genesis of Homer's Iliad, though few dates are more hotly argued over, and the very existence of Homer as a person who created (traditional, formulaic, oral) epicpoems is arguable.

1598: George Chapman published the first seven...

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1598

George Chapman published the first seven books of his translation of Homer 's Iliad, the first English version done direct from Greek; he finished the Iliad in 1608 and the whole of Homer in 1616.

By September 1791: William Cowper published, with Joseph Johnson,...

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By September 1791

William Cowper published, with Joseph Johnson , his blank-versetranslations of Homer 's Iliad and Odyssey: a version designed to supersede Pope 's translation in heroic couplets.

1870: The German archaeologist Herman Schliemann...

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1870

The German archaeologist Herman Schliemann began to dig at Hissarlik in Turkey, on the site of Mycenean Troy (which he believed to be the Troy of Homer 's Iliad).

1897: Samuel Butler published The Authoress of...

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1897

Samuel Butler published The Authoress of the Odyssey, a bookcalculated to offend the entire establishment
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
of imperial Britain with its claim that the second great character-building Greek epic had been written by a woman.

1946: Critic Erich Auerbach published, in German,...

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1946

Critic Erich Auerbach published, in German, the influential study which became in its English translation, 1953, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature. He wrote it at Istanbul, as a Jewish refugee...

February 2007: Social anthropologist Mary Douglas published...

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February 2007

Social anthropologist Mary Douglas published a brief study of literary composition entitled Thinking in Circles: An Essay on Ring Composition.

By November 2017: Classical scholar Emily Wilson (daughter...

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By November 2017

Classical scholar Emily Wilson (daughter and grand-daughter of English-literature scholars Katherine Duncan-Jones and Elsie Duncan-Jones ) became the first woman ever to translate the whole of Homer 's Odyssey into English.

Texts

Homer,. L’Iliade d’Homère. Translator Dacier, Anne, Rigaud, 1711.
Homer,. L’Odyssée d’Homère. Translator Dacier, Anne, Rigaud, 1716.
Homer,. The Iliad of Homer. Translator Pope, Alexander, Bernard Lintott, 1720.