Epic poem · 1898
The Iliad
Translated by Samuel Butler (1898)
Also in this archive
Theodore Alois Buckley’s translation (1873 printing) →
George Chapman’s translation (1611) →
William Cowper’s translation (1791; Southey’s edition, New York 1860) →
Edward, Earl of Derby’s translation (1864) →
Thomas Hobbes’s translation (1676) →
Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf and Ernest Myers’s translation (1911) →
A. T. Murray’s translation (1924) →
Samuel Butler’s brisk, plain-spoken prose translation of Homer’s epic of the wrath of Achilles and the last year of the siege of Troy.
Contents · 24 parts
- Book I38 paragraphs
- Book II63 paragraphs
- Book III29 paragraphs
- Book IV29 paragraphs
- Book V44 paragraphs
- Book VI28 paragraphs
- Book VII22 paragraphs
- Book VIII33 paragraphs
- Book IX26 paragraphs
- Book X42 paragraphs
- Book XI46 paragraphs
- Book XII19 paragraphs
- Book XIII42 paragraphs
- Book XIV33 paragraphs
- Book XV44 paragraphs
- Book XVI43 paragraphs
- Book XVII37 paragraphs
- Book XVIII38 paragraphs
- Book XIX22 paragraphs
- Book XX28 paragraphs
- Book XXI33 paragraphs
- Book XXII27 paragraphs
- Book XXIII48 paragraphs
- Book XXIV48 paragraphs