English translations of Homer

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This is a partial list of English translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, listed alphabetically by the translator's name, and with the date of first publication. Not all translators translated both the Iliad and Odyssey.

In addition to the complete translations listed here there are also numerous partial translations, ranging from several lines to complete chapters of Homer, which have appeared in a variety of publications.

[edit] A - L Translator Iliad Odyssey Anonymous (T. Bridges?) 1797, London - Anonymous (“Graduate of Dublin”) 1833, Dublin, Gumming - S.O. Andrew (1868–1952) - 1948, London, J.M. Dent & Sons S.O. Andrew and Michael J. Oakley 1955, London, J.M. Dent & Sons - Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) 1861 (partial; included in 'On Translating Homer') - Mordaunt Barnard 1876, London, Williams and Margate 1876, London, Williams and Margate W.G. Barter 1854, London, Longman, Brown, and Green - C.W. Bateman and R. Mongan 1895(ca), London, J. Cornish - Herbert Bates (1868–1929) - 1929, New York, McGraw Hill Rev. Lovelace Bigge-Wither - 1869, London, James Parker and Co. John Stuart Blackie (1809–1895) 1866, Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas - E.H. Blakeney 1909-13, London, G. Bell and Sons - T.S. Brandreth (1788–1873) 1846, London, W. Pickering - William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) 1870, Boston, Houghton, Fields Osgood 1871, Boston, Houghton, Fields Osgood Theodore Alois Buckley (1825–1856) 1851, London, H.G. Bohn 1851, London, H.G. Bohn Samuel Henry Butcher (1850–1910) and Andrew Lang (1844–1912) - 1879, London, Macmillan Samuel Butler (1835–1902) 1898, London, Longmans, Green 1900, London, Longmans, Green W.G. Calacleugh 1870, Philadelphia, Lippincott - Charles Stuart Calverley (1831–1884) 1866 - C.B. Cayley 1877, London, Longmans - H.F Cary? (“Graduate of Oxford”) 1821, London, Munday and Slatter 1823, London, Whittaker Francis Caulfield - 1921, London, G. Bell & Sons George Chapman (1559–1634) 1611-15, London, Rich. Field for Nathaniell Butter 1615, London, Rich. Field for Nathaniell Butter Alsten Hurd Chase and William G. Perry 1950, Boston, Little Brown - Thomas Clark 1888 - James Inglis Cochrane 1867, Edinburgh - Albert Cook (b. 1925) - 1967, New York, W.W. Norton John Graham Cordery 1870, London 1897, London, Methuen Henry Bernard Cotterill - 1911, Boston, D. Estes/Harrap William Cowper (1731–1800) 1791, London, J. Johnson 1791, London, J. Johnson J. Henry Dart (1817–1887) 1862, London, Longmans Green - R.D. Dawe - 1993, Sussex, The Book Guild G.W. Edgington - 1869, London, Longman, Green, Reader, and Dyer R.L. Eickhoff - 2001, New York, T. Doherty Preston H. Epps - 1965, New York, Macmillan Robert Fagles (b. 1933) 1990, New York, Viking/Penguin 1996, New York, Viking/Penguin Robert Fitzgerald (1910–1985) 1974, New York, Doubleday 1961, New York, Doubleday Rev Dr. Giles 1861-82 1862-77 Robert Graves 1959, New York, Doubleday and London, Cassell - Herbert Hailstone 1882, London, Relfe Brothers - Sidney G. Hamilton - 1883, London, Macmillan Sidney G. Hamilton and Thomas Clark 1855-58, Philadelphia - Martin Hammond (b. 1944) 1987, Harmondsworth Middlesex, Penguin 2000, London, Duckworth Henry Hayman - 1882, London Sir John F.W. Herschel 1866, London & Cambridge, Macmilllan - R.H. Hiller - 1927, Philadelphia, J.C. Winston Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) 1676, London, W. Crook 1675, London, W. Crook G. Howland 1889, Boston 1891, New York Denison Bingham Hull 1982 1978 Brian Kemball-Cook - 1993, Calliope Press Andrew Lang (1844–1912), Walter Leaf (1852–1927), and Ernst Meyers (1844–1921) 1883, London, Macmillan - Richmond Lattimore (1906–1984) 1951, Chicago, Univ. Chicago Press 1965, New York, Harper & Row Arthur Garner Lewis 1911, New York, Baker & Taylor - Stanley Lombardo (b. 1943) 1997, Indianapolis, Hackett 2000, Indianapolis, Hackett

[edit] M - Z Translator Iliad Odyssey John William MacKail (1859–1945) - 1903-10, London, John Murray James Macpherson (1736–1796) 1773, London, T. Becket - Allen Mandelbaum - 1990, Berkeley, Univ. California Press Sir S. William Marris 1934, Oxford 1925, Oxford Edward McCrorie - 2004, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Univ Press Charles Merivale, Dean of Ely 1869, London, Strahan - Rodney Merrill - 2002, University of Michigan Press William Walter Merry (1835–1918) - 1876, Oxford, Clarendon Roscoe Mongan 1879, London, James Cornish & Sons 1879-80, , London, James Cornish & Sons David Binning Monro (1836–1905) - 1901, Oxford, Clarendon Rev. James Morrice 1809 - William Morris (1834–1896) - 1887, London, Reeves & Turner William Munford 1846, Boston, Little Brown - A.F. Murison 1933, London, Longmans Green - Augustus Taber Murray (1866–1940) 1924-5, Cambridge & London, Harvard & Heinemann 1919, Cambridge & London, Harvard & Heinemann George Musgrave (1789–1883) - 1865, London, Bell & Daldy Francis William Newman (1807–1893) 1856, London, Walton & Naberly - Thomas Starling Norgate (1807–1893) 1864, London, Williams and Margate 1862, London, Williams and Margate John Ogilby (1600–1676) 1660, London, Roycroft 1665, London, Roycroft John Ozell, William Broome, and William Oldisworth 1712, London, Bernard Lintott - George Herbert Palmer (1842–1933) - 1884, Boston & New York, Houghton Mifflin Alexander Pope (1688–1744) with William Broome and Elijah Fenton 1715, London, Bernard Lintot 1725, London, Bernard Lintot John Purves 1891, London, Percival - Peter Reading - 1994 Michael Reck 1990, New York, Harper Collins - Ennis Rees 1963, New York, Random House 1960, New York, Random House Emile Victor Rieu (1887–1972) 1950, Hammondsworth, Middlesex, Penguin 1945, London & Baltimore, Penguin John Benson Rose 1874, London, privately printed - William Henry Denham Rouse (1863–1950) 1938, London, T. Nelson & Sons 1937, London, T. Nelson & Sons G.A. Schomberg (1821–1907) - 1879-82, London, J. Murray T.E. Shaw (T.E. Lawrence) (1888–1935) - 1932, London, Walker, Merton, Rogers; New York, Oxford Univ Press Walter Shewring - 1980, Oxford, Oxford Univ Press Edwin W. Simcox 1865, London, Jackson, Walford and Hodder - R. Smith 1938, London, Grafton - William B. Smith (1850–1934) and Walter Miller (1864–1949) 1944, New York, Macmillan - Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799–1869) 1864 - William Sotheby (1757–1833) 1831, London, John Murray 1834, London, John Murray E.A. Tibbetts 1907, Boston, R.G. Badges - Arthur Sanders Way (1847–1930) 1886-8, London, S. Low 1880, London, Macmilllan Philip Stanhope Worsley (1835–1866) - 1861-2, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood & Sons Philip Stanhope Worsley (1835–1866) and John Conington 1865, Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons - Charles Ichabod Wright 1858-65, Cambridge, Macmillan -