The Odyssey by Homer (translated by Samuel Butler)

The OdysseyHomer (translated by Samuel Butler) · c. 700 BCEOdysseus's return from Troy to Ithaca, Penelope and Telemachus; Samuel Butler's 1900 prose translation. Read The Odyssey by Homer (translated by Samuel…This translation is intended to supplement a work entitled “The Authoress of the Odyssey”, which I published in 1897. I could not give the whole “Odyssey” in that book without making it unwieldy, I therefore epitomised my translation, which was already completed and which I now publish in full.All books in the ECCE gallery