Epic poem · 1879
The Odyssey
Translated by S. H. Butcher and A. Lang (1879)
Also in this archive
Samuel Butler’s translation (1900) →
George Chapman’s translation (1614–15) →
H. B. Cotterill’s translation (1911) →
William Cowper’s translation (1791) →
William Morris’s translation (1887) →
A. T. Murray’s translation (1919) →
Alexander Pope, with William Broome and Elijah Fenton’s translation (1725–1726) →
Butcher and Lang's prose translation of Odysseus's ten-year voyage home from Troy, in a deliberately archaic, King James-like English.
Contents · 24 parts
- Book I34 paragraphs
- Book II40 paragraphs
- Book III36 paragraphs
- Book IV87 paragraphs
- Book V38 paragraphs
- Book VI23 paragraphs
- Book VII26 paragraphs
- Book VIII60 paragraphs
- Book IX51 paragraphs
- Book X61 paragraphs
- Book XI60 paragraphs
- Book XII43 paragraphs
- Book XIII43 paragraphs
- Book XIV36 paragraphs
- Book XV66 paragraphs
- Book XVI56 paragraphs
- Book XVII84 paragraphs
- Book XVIII60 paragraphs
- Book XIX56 paragraphs
- Book XX61 paragraphs
- Book XXI50 paragraphs
- Book XXII67 paragraphs
- Book XXIII34 paragraphs
- Book XXIV60 paragraphs