Samuel Butler

English writer and translator of HomerHomerThe name to which Greek tradition attributes the Iliad and Odyssey.Glossary · Click to read the explanation who lived from 1835 to 1902. ^[1]

The archive used his prose translations of the IliadIliadGreek epic attributed to Homer, narrating a phase of the Trojan War.Glossary · Click to read the explanation and OdysseyOdysseyGreek epic attributed to Homer, following Odysseus’s return after the Trojan War.Glossary · Click to read the explanation for its selected comparisons. He uses Latin names such as Jove and Juno; these become ZeusZeusZeus is the sky god and leading deity in many Greek traditions. In the Iliad he presides over divine gatherings while others can still speak and object.Glossary · Click to read the explanation and HeraHeraGreek goddess and Zeus’s wife, appearing in council and family-disagreement scenes in the Iliad.Glossary · Click to read the explanation in our discussion of Greek narratives. He is distinct from the earlier poet of the same name. ^[1][2]