Homer

AD published Journey to Ithaca, a novel classified by the American Library of Congress as religious fiction: its title alludes to the hero's homeward journey in Homer 's Odyssey.

JK published her translation from the ninth book of Homer 's Odyssey, entitled In Cyclops' Cave.

The year after RS died, three strikingly different posthumous books by her appeared:Black Ships Before Troy. The Story of the Iliad, which retells Homer 's epic poem in novel form; The Minstrel and...

AP published the long-awaited first four books of his translation of Homer 's Iliad.

No copy of the first edition is known to be extant. The extremely long title continues An Accurate New Spelling Dictionary and Complete English Expositor: containing a much larger collection of words than any book...

ATG later remembered that she was writing poetry at seven or eight. She also planned large literary projects including a prequel to Homer 's Iliad. Like Frances Burney , she tried to...

AMC published a work of classical scholarship, Familiar Studies in Homer.

MR published The Modern Calypso; or, Widow's Captivation, A Novel.

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.

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.

AD replied with Des Causes de la Corruption du Goût (offically approved on this day) to the critique of her L'Iliade d'Homère by Antoine Houdart de La Motte in his French verse adaptation and his...

The future JSM wrote a history (probably fiction) when she was nine, which years later she disparaged as an imbecile effusion. As she grew up she became prolific in letters and in occasional...

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 .)

She begins this book with a method not unlike that of Experimental Lives from Cato to George Sand. Her first chapter, Pioneers in Conversion, centres its topic on individuals, relating the sudden transformation...

She praised Creech's version (the first available in English) as making ancient learning available to women, whose education (according to the scanted Customs of the Nation) keeps women from reading great writers...