Homer

HC plays at length with allusions to Homer 's Trojan War, first blending Helen with herself since they share a first name. Helen, whose elopement with Paris of Troy caused the Trojan War, is made...

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

She was able to learn a little Greek and geometry from the local parson, though she read Homer in translation.

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...

This translation made its debut at a time of renewed struggle in the querelle of the ancients and moderns. This debate had arisen in the 1680s, with Boileau maintaining the superiority of ancient culture and...

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.

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...

She insists on admiring the presumed simplicity of manners in the Homeric age in preference to modern, civilized, sophisticated society. Her key image for Homer 's style—of wild, luxuriant, varied growth, the opposite of a...

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.

As a child in a middle-class Bengali family, KKD was exposed from an early age to several languages, particularly Bengali, English, Sanskrit, German, and French. She learned English at home from her mother , who...

The lecture proved quite popular, and Clifford's Inn had to turn people away. Over the following years, FF put on many such readings, performing works by Homer , Shelley , Yeats , Lady Gregory ...

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...

An Argument explains the poem's source in Plutarch. AF 's hero, whose father was an associate of Alexander the Great , is dead after many vicissitudes. His ashes make a triumphal progress by sea from...

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...