NationMaster - Encyclopedia: English translations of Homer

This is a list of the translations into English 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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, Univ 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

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