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.

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 .)

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...

Her admirer Harold P. Collins persuaded her to omit a very bad paraphrase of Homer in sketchy free verse.

One month before writing this poem Elizabeth Smith met Mary Hunt , with whom she was soon maintaining a scholarly correspondence. In the earliest letter which Bowdler prints (written on 7 July 1792), Smith touches...

AD further pursued her defence both of Homer himself and of her treatment of him, in her expanded and revised second edition of her Iliad translation in 1719. There, in Quelques Réflexions sur la Préface...

CBR published Amalgamemnon, a novel written in the future and conditional tenses, the subjunctive or imperative moods, which relates a modern woman to the Homeric , or Æschylean , Trojan prophet Cassandra.

JK published a book-length sequence of poems in many voices from classical epic: The Odysseus Poems: Fictions on the Odyssey of Homer, with etchings by Jacqueline Morreau .

The title echoes a phrase from Keats 's sonnet On First Looking Into Chapman's 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...