Author:Homer

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Homer (9th century BCE – 8th century BCE)

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early Greek poet and rhapsode

Homer

Contents

Works

• The Iliad
• The Odyssey
• Epigrams and other poems

Alleged works

• The Homeric Hymns, translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White in Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica:
  • Hymn to Dionysus
  • Hymn to Demeter
  • Hymn to Ares
• The Homeric Hymns, transl. by Andrew Lang (1899) (external scan)

Works about Homer

Encyclopedic articles

• “Homer”, by Wilhelm Ihne in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.
• "Homer," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Homer," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)

Essays and scholarly articles

• An Enquiry into the Life and Writings of Homer (1735) by Thomas Blackwell
• An Essay on the Original Genius and Writings of Homer (1775) by Robert Wood
• “On the Homeric Use of the word Ἥρως” (1833) by T. F. E., Philological Museum, 2: 72–92.
• "On Translating Homer: Last Words", by Matthew Arnold (1862)
• "Homer", by John Henry Wright, in Masterpieces of Greek Literature (1902)
• "Homer and the Epic" (1914) by Charles Burton Gulick in The Harvard Classics; Lectures on The Harvard Classics, Volume 51