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# Translations

# I - # II - # III - # IV - # Proteus
# V - # VI - # VII - # VIII

# IX - # Cyclops - # X - # Lestrygonians - # Circe
# XI - # XII - # Scylla & Charybdis - # Oxen of the Sun

# XIII - # XIV - # XV - # XVI
# XVII - # XVIII - # XIX - # XX
# XXI - # XXII - # XXIII - # XXIV

# Summaries - # Criticism - # Odysseus - # Misc - # Homer - # Iliad

To compare two of these translations via HTML frames, start here and then choose the two you prefer. Only those in bold are online.

Greek (c800 BCE): incremental HTML "andra moi ennepe, mousa, polutropon, hos mala polla planchthe, epei Troies hieron ptoliethron epersen"

Livius Andronicus (c220 BCE): fragments only "Virum mihi, Camena, insece versutum (tell me, O muse, about the skillful man)" [EB]

Leontius Pilatus (Latin 14th C): commissioned by Petrarch [info]

Castilian (1556): [info&pic]

Chapman (1616): I-XII by chapter (no line-anchors) "THE man, O Muse, inform, that many a way/ Wound with his wisdom to his wished stay,/ That wandered wondrous far, when he the town/ Of sacred Troy had sack'd and shivered down" [Keats on] [recent review]

Ogilby (1669): [info]

Hobbes (1675): [bio]

Pope (1725): [txt] "The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd, Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound; Who, when his arms had wrought the destined fall Of sacred Troy, and razed her heaven-built wall" [info&pix] [Iliad preface]

Cowper (1791): HTML by chapter (no anchors) "Muse make the man thy theme, for shrewdness famed And genius versatile, who far and wide A Wand'rer, after Ilium overthrown" [Amazon]

Butcher-Lang (1879): HTML "Tell me, Muse, of that man, so ready at need, who wandered far and wide, after he had sacked the sacred citadel of Troy" Mirror: 800k HTML; [illus] [Lang bio]

Palmer (1884): [info] [Amazon] [Bibliofind]

Butler (1900): HTML by chapter (w/line-anchors) "TELL ME, O MUSE, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy." Mirrors: (no anchors) , ditto, ditto, w/subpages, 600k HTML, 600k txt, concordance

Morris (1901): [info&pic]

Murray (1919): incremental HTML "Tell me, O Muse, of the man of many devices, who wandered full many ways after he had sacked the sacred citadel of Troy." [Amazon], ditto

TE Lawrence 'of Arabia' (1932): [info] [Amazon] [Bibliofind]

WHD Rouse (1937): "This is the story of a man, one who was never at a loss. He had travelled far in the world, after the sack of Troy, the virgin fortress" [Amazon]

EV Rieu (1946?): [quotes] [Amazon] [Bibliofind]

Fitzgerald (1961): [Amazon] ditto [Bibliofind]

Richmond Lattimore (1967): "Tell me, muse, of the man of many ways, who was driven far journeys, after he had sacked Troy's sacred citadel." [blurb w/audio] [Amazon]

Walter Shewring (1980): [Amazon]

Mandelbaum (1990): [ad] [Amazon] ditto

Hooker: Cyclops only

Myatt: I-III only (no anchors) "The Muse shall tell of the many adventures of that man of the many stratagems " [preface]

Kahane (1996): [note]

Fagles (1996): VI-VIII only (no anchors) "Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns/ driven time and again off course, once he had plundered/ the hallowed halls of Troy." [interview w/multimedia] [review] [pr] [Amazon]

Lombardo (2000): I only "Speak, Memory-- Of the cunning hero, The wanderer, blown off course time and again After he plundered Troy's sacred heights." [review]

[Bibliofind] links; comparison, effective searchpattern

The Greek original has 24 'books' of 400-500 lines each.

Very different map-reconstructions of Odysseus's travels around the Mediterranean: map one, map two, essay

A simple online game; bbs, mailinglist

Joyce's Ulysses correspondences in detail

Greek - Chapman - Cowper - Butcher-Lang - Butler - Murray - Myatt

Day One summary: invocation of Muse, Poseidon has stranded Odysseus with Calypso, the gods meet in Poseidon's absence, the case of foolish Aegisthus is mentioned, Athena successfully pleads O's case to Zeus, Athena suggests dispatching Hermes to Calypso and herself to Ithaca, Athena visits Telemachus in Ithaca, advises him to confront the suitors and then go to Nestor for news, Penelope asks the singer to sing a different song but T contradicts her; T confronts the suitors; Eurycleia tucks him in

Other summaries: shortest - MythWeb - Newfoundland - Virtual - UMass - Temple - Johnson - Kennesaw - Lamb - Spark - [bio of Telemachus] - [Athena]

hecatomb = oxen for sacrifice; lit. one hundred oxen
Achaeans = Greeks, region of Achaea in the Peloponnesus

Greek - Chapman - Cowper - Butcher-Lang - Butler - Murray - Myatt

Day two: T has Achaeans summoned to assembly, he speaks and weeps; Antinous blames Penelope; T answers; Zeus sends eagles as omen; Halitherses interprets it as O's revenge; T asks for ship, Mentor supports T; Athena as Mentor tells T how to prepare for the trip; the suitors mock T; T tells Eurycleia what he needs; A as Mentor arranges the ship and crew; the ship sets sail at night

Summaries: UMass - Temple - Lamb - MythWeb - Spark - Newfoundland - Virtual - UMass - Johnson - Kennesaw - shortest - MythWeb

Ships were probably black from pitch applied to keep them watertight and wormproof.

[pic, ship?] ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto

Greek - Chapman - Cowper - Butcher-Lang - Butler - Murray - Myatt

Day three: T&A arrive at Nestor's; she gives him courage; Pisistratus invites them to feast without knowing who they are; T explains himself to N; N mourns his dead and fills in post-Iliad fates of various Greeks; Menelaus may know something, so T must track him down; N invites T&A to spend the night but A flies off; N opens a bottle of his best for T

Day four: N arranges a special sacrifice to Athena; T&P set off for Sparta by chariot; overnight at Alpheus's

Day five: more driving

Summaries: Johnson - Kennesaw - Virtual - Temple - shortest - MythWeb - Spark

(This preferred site for Pylos looks impossible to me, given that ships were lucky to make 50 miles in a day, while chariots could do 10mph easily. [archeology])

Greek - Chapman - Cowper - Butcher-Lang - Butler - Murray

Day five: they arrive at dusk; Menelaus is hosting a double-wedding feast; welcomes T&P; speaks of his time since Troy and mentions O; T weeps, Helen recognises him, slips everybody a tranquiliser, reminisces about Troy and O's disguise as beggar; M tells of the Trojan horse

Day six: T asks M about O; M predicts O will devour the suitors like a lion; M tells about wrestling Proteus, and finally reveals that O is alive but stranded; the suitors plot T's ambush; Penelope learns of T's departure and the plot; Athena sends P a dream

[ship of Menelaus?]

Proteus

Homer's text - Johnson - Kennesaw - Virtual - Temple - shortest - MythWeb - Spark

Samos ambush: [geog info] [map]

Days seven to thirtyone

Greek - Chapman - Cowper - Butcher-Lang - Butler - Murray

Summaries: Lamb - Bulfinch's - Johnson - Kennesaw - Virtual - Temple - shortest - MythWeb - shortest - MythWeb - Spark - Auburn - psychology - ditto - map - [essay] - song - myth

The land of the Phaecians is normally taken as Corfu [map]

Day thirtytwo

Greek - Chapman - Cowper - Butcher-Lang - Butler - Murray - Fagles

Summaries: Lamb - Apollodorus? - Bulfinch - Johnson - Kennesaw - Virtual - Torino - Temple - shortest - MythWeb - Spark - map

Still day thirtytwo

Greek - Chapman - Cowper - Butcher-Lang - Butler - Murray - Fagles

Summaries: shortest - MythWeb - Temple - Spark

Day thirtythree

Greek - Chapman - Cowper - Butcher-Lang - Butler - Murray - Fagles

Summaries: shortest - MythWeb - Temple - Spark

Still day thirtythree

Greek - Chapman - Cowper - Butcher-Lang - Butler - Murray

Summaries: Lamb - Apollodorus - Auburn - Temple - Spark

Lotus-eaters

Summaries: Lamb - Apollodorus - Johnson - Kennesaw - Virtual - shortest - MythWeb - Auburn - map - questions

Cyclops

Homer's text; Lamb - Apollodorus - Hooker's translation - Johnson - Kennesaw - Virtual - shortest - MythWeb - Auburn - map - pic - pic - questions - game - myth

Still day thirtythree

Greek - Chapman - Cowper - Butcher-Lang - Butler - Murray

Summaries: UMass - Temple - Lamb - Apollodorus - Johnson - Kennesaw - Virtual - shortest - MythWeb - Spark - Auburn - map - questions - winds

Lestrygonians

Homer's text; Lamb - Apollodorus - Johnson - Kennesaw - Virtual - shortest - MythWeb - Auburn - map

Circe

Homer's text; Lamb - Apollodorus - Johnson - Kennesaw - ditto - Virtual - shortest - MythWeb - Auburn - map - pic - questions - fansite - moly - myth - poncy book review

Still day thirtythree

Greek - Chapman - Cowper - Butcher-Lang - Butler - Murray

Summaries: Lamb - Apollodorus - Johnson - Kennesaw - Virtual - Temple - Spark - shortest - MythWeb - Auburn - map - questions - terminology - myth - ditto - ditto - pix

Still day thirtythree

Greek - Chapman - Cowper - Butcher-Lang - Butler - Murray

Summaries: UMass - Temple - Spark

Wandering Rocks

comparison - Wandering Rocks entry in Perseus encyclopedia

Sirens

legal term: "Ulysses contract"

Homer's text; Lamb - Apollodorus - Johnson - Kennesaw - Virtual - shortest - MythWeb - Auburn - map - pic - questions - fanpage - Kafka - myth

Scylla & Charybdis

Homer's text; Lamb - Apollodorus - Johnson - Kennesaw - Virtual - shortest - MythWeb - Auburn - map - questions - myth - pic

Oxen of the Sun

Homer's text; Lamb - Apollodorus - Johnson - Kennesaw - Virtual - shortest - MythWeb - map - myth - myth

Day thirtythree to thirtyfive

Greek - Cowper - Butcher-Lang - Butler - Murray

Summaries: UMass - Temple - shortest - MythWeb - Spark

[site]

Still day thirtyfive

Greek - Cowper - Butcher-Lang - Butler - Murray

Summaries: shortest - MythWeb - Temple - Spark

Day thirtyfive to thirtyseven

Greek - Cowper - Butcher-Lang - Butler - Murray

Summaries: shortest - MythWeb - Temple - Spark

Still day thirtyseven

Greek - Cowper - Butcher-Lang - Butler - Murray

Summaries: shortest - MythWeb - Temple - Spark

Day thirtyeight

Greek - Cowper - Butcher-Lang - Butler - Murray

Summaries: shortest - MythWeb - Temple - Spark

Still day thirtyeight

Greek - Cowper - Butcher-Lang - Butler - Murray

Summaries: shortest - MythWeb - Temple - Spark

Still day thirtyeight

Greek - Cowper - Butcher-Lang - Butler - Murray

Summaries: shortest - MythWeb - Temple - Spark

Day thirtynine

Greek - Cowper - Butcher-Lang - Butler - Murray

Summaries: Apollodorus? - shortest - MythWeb - Temple - Spark

Still day thirtynine

Greek - Cowper - Butcher-Lang - Butler - Murray

Summaries: Lamb - Johnson - Kennesaw - Virtual - Temple - shortest - MythWeb - Spark - Auburn - map - essay

Still day thirtynine

Greek - Cowper - Butcher-Lang - Butler - Murray

Summaries: shortest - MythWeb - Temple - Spark

Day thirtynine and forty

Aristarchus believed the 'original' ending of the poem was line 296 [qv] of this book, and that the continuation was added later.

Greek - Cowper - Butcher-Lang - Butler - Murray

Summaries: Lamb - Johnson - Kennesaw - Virtual - Temple - pix - map - [essay] - shortest - MythWeb - Spark

Still day forty

Greek - Cowper - Butcher-Lang - Butler - Murray

Summaries: Lamb - Johnson - Kennesaw - Virtual - Torino - Temple - shortest - MythWeb - Spark - game - poncy book review - ditto - virtue - essay

Aristotle 4thC BCE "A certain man has been abroad many years; he is alone, and the god Poseidon keeps a hostile eye on him. At home the situation is that suitors for his wife's hand are draining his resources and plotting to kill his son. Then, after suffering storm and shipwreck, he comes home, makes himself known, attacks the suitors: he survives and they are destroyed."

Lamb (1808 paraphrase w/anchors) "THIS history tells of the wanderings of Ulysses and his followers in their return from Troy after the destruction of that famous city of Asia by the Grecians."

Very short w/pix "Oh Goddess of Inspiration, help me sing of wily Odysseus, that master of schemes!" So Homer begins his epic, though the hero himself is still offstage.

MythWeb "Oh Goddess of Inspiration, help me sing of wily Odysseus, that master of schemes!" So Homer begins his epic, though the hero himself is still offstage.

Spark multipage w/frames "The Odyssey begins with a prayer to the Muse. This prayer includes a brief summary of the entire sequence of events presented in the Odyssey, the story of Odysseus' long journey home."

Auburn (short w/pix via map) "Tell me, Muse, the story of that resourceful man who was driven to wander far and wide after he had sacked the holy citadel of Troy."

Virtual detailed w/pix "In this introductory paragraph Homer calls for the muse of poetry to help him in reciting properly the story of brave Odysseus."

Temple detailed summary (w/anchors) "Invocation to the Muse; survey of Odysseus' condition in the 10th year of his wanderings."

UMass detailed onepage cheatsheet (some anchors) "All the survivors of the Trojan War have returned home except Odysseus."

Penguin detailed cheatsheet "Athena appeals to Zeus for permission to help Odysseus reach home."

Newfoundland very detailed onepage (no anchors) "The epic opens with a plead to the Muse, the goddess of the arts of poetry and music."

Sutcliff: modern retelling for 5th graders [review] [Amazon]

Apollodorus short w/commentary (incremental anchors) "Ulysses, as some say, wandered about Libya, or, as some say, about Sicily, or, as others say, about the ocean or about the Tyrrhenian Sea." [index]

Poseidon one-page detailed "The poet or narrator 'invokes the Muse' asking her to start her story wherever she chooses, of our hero, Odysseus, who has travelled far and wide after the Trojan war. "

Gorney onepage "When the story begins, ten years have elapsed since the fall of Troy, and all the Greek cheifs, except Odysseus, have either died or returned home."

MissBeth concise "The Odyssey tells of the adventures of Odysseus. After fighting ten years in the Trojan War, the story tells, it took Odysseus ten more years to reach home, in Ithica, and his wife, Penelope."

Lafayette onepage studyguide "The Odyssey begins twenty years after Odysseus has left his kingdom of Ithaca, an island off the northwest coast of Greece."

Johnson (Joycean) "The Odyssey opens (after an invocation to the gods) in medias res ('in the midst of things')."

Kennesaw (Joycean) "The first four books of The Odyssey describe Odysseus's son Telemachus, specifically the helplessness he feels at the mercy of the suitors and his subsequent longing for his father's return."

Timeline of plot; footnotes, characters

Aristotle, [analysis]; Longinus; EB, review, talk, ditto, ditto; notes

lost prequels

16th C parody [info]

[ad for book], ditto

"Why was I always returning to this theme...? I find the subject of Ulysses the most human in world literature. Ulysses didn't want to go off to Troy; he knew that the official reason for the war, the dissemination of the culture of Hellas, was only a pretext for the Greek merchants, who were seeking new markets. When the recruiting officers arrived, he happened to be plowing. He pretended to be mad. Thereupon they placed his little two-year-old son in the furrow. Observe the beauty of the motifs: the only man in Hellas who is against the war, and the father. Before Troy the heroes shed their lifeblood in vain. They want to raise the siege. Ulysses opposes the idea. [He thinks up] the stratagem of the wooden horse. After Troy there is no further talk of Achilles, Menelaus, Agamemnon. Only one man is not done with; his heroic career has hardly begun: Ulysses." --James Joyce [cite]

info, essay, bio, ditto, psych, ditto, biz-econ

$200 bust

links, ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto, character-related, pix, old

archeology, archeology, arch links, papyrus, ditto, papyrus catalog, ships, shipbuilding, maritime history, ditto, pic?, pix, map, map

Study guide, study guide, ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto; badly formatted, PBS, questions, ditto, ditto, quizzes, online courses

J-Campbell-esque, Jungian, recovery

historians'-eye; landscape in; women in

paintings of; brilliant play

EB (excellent); cheatsheet

overview, mirror?

who?, when?, where?, ditto; birthplace?, etc

debate; review

site

bio

slideshow

culture

Greek grammar and pronunciation

Summaries: Virtual, UMass, Apollodorus, Gorney, Spark

Bulfinch; variants

Archeology of Troy

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