The Iliad of Homer (Buckley)

by Homer

For other versions of this work, see The Iliad.

HARPERS' NEW CLASSICAL LIBRARY.

 

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THE

ILIAD OF HOMER.

 

THE

 

ILIAD OF HOMER,

 

LITERALLY TRANSLATED,

WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES.

 

BY

THEODORE ALOIS BUCKLEY, BA.,

OF CHRIST CHURCH.

 

NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS,
329 & 331 PEARL STREET.
1860.

 

PREFACE.

 

The present translation of the Iliad will, it is hoped, be found to convey, more accurately than any which has preceded it, the words and thoughts of the original. It is based upon a careful examination of whatever has been contributed by scholars of every age toward the elucidation of the text, including the ancient scholiasts and lexicographers, the exegetical labors of Barnes and Clarke, and the elaborate criticisms of Heyne, Wolf, and their successors.

The necessary brevity of the notes has prevented the full discussion of many passages where there is great room for difference of opinion, and hence several interpretations are adopted without question, which, had the editor's object been to write a critical commentary, would have undergone a more lengthened examination. The same reason has compelled him, in many instances, to substitute references for extracts, indicating rather than quoting those storehouses of information, from whose abundant contents he would gladly have drawn more copious supplies. Among the numerous works to which he has had recourse, the following deserve particular mention:—Alberti's invaluable edition of Hesychius, the Commentary of Eustathius, and Buttmann's Lexilogus.

In the succeeding volume, the Odyssey, Hymns, and minor poems will be produced in a similar manner.

THEODORE ALOIS BUCKLEY,⁠

Ch. Ch., Oxford.

This table of contents is not part of the original text

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CONTENTS

Chapters (not listed in original)

• BOOK THE FIRST
• BOOK THE SECOND
• BOOK THE THIRD
• BOOK THE FOURTH
• BOOK THE FIFTH
• BOOK THE SIXTH
• BOOK THE SEVENTH
• BOOK THE EIGHTH
• BOOK THE NINTH
• BOOK THE TENTH
• BOOK THE ELEVENTH
• BOOK THE TWELFTH
• BOOK THE THIRTEENTH
• BOOK THE FOURTEENTH
• BOOK THE FIFTEENTH
• BOOK THE SIXTEENTH
• BOOK THE SEVENTEENTH
• BOOK THE EIGHTEENTH
• BOOK THE NINETEENTH
• BOOK THE TWENTIETH
• BOOK THE TWENTY-FIRST
• BOOK THE TWENTY-SECOND
• BOOK THE TWENTY-THIRD
• BOOK THE TWENTY-FOURTH