The Odysseys of Homer by Homer Translated according to the Greek by George Chapman London: Published by George Newnes Limited Southhampton Street Strand W.C. New York: Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons Contents CHAPMAN’S INTRODUCTION. CERTAIN ANCIENT GREEK EPIGRAMS TRANSLATED. THE FIRST BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS THE SECOND BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS THE THIRD BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS THE FOURTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS THE FIFTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS THE SIXTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS THE SEVENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS THE EIGHTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS THE NINTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS THE TENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS THE ELEVENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS THE TWELFTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS THE THIRTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS THE FOURTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS THE FIFTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS THE SIXTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS THE SEVENTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS THE EIGHTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS THE NINETEENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS THE TWENTIETH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS THE TWENTY-FIRST BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS THE TWENTY-SECOND BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS THE TWENTY-THIRD BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS THE TWENTY-FOURTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS THE BATRACHOMYOMACHIA HYMNS A Hymn to Apollo A Hymn to Hermes A Hymn to Venus (First Hymn) A Hymn to Venus (Second Hymn) A Hymn to Bacchus, or the Pirates A Hymn to Mars A Hymn to Diana A Hymn to Venus (Third Hymn) A Hymn to Pallas A Hymn to Juno A Hymn to Ceres A Hymn to the Mother of the Gods A Hymn to Lion-Hearted Hercules A Hymn to Æsculapius A Hymn to Castor and Pollux A Hymn to Mercury A Hymn to Pan A Hymn to Vulcan A Hymn to Phœbus A Hymn to Neptune A Hymn to Jove A Hymn to Vesta A Hymn to the Muses and Apollo A Hymn to Bacchus A Hymn to Diana A Hymn to Pallas A Hymn to Vesta and Mercury A Hymn to Earth, the Mother of All A Hymn to the Sun A Hymn to the Moon A Hymn to Castor and Pollux A Hymn to Men of Hospitality EPIGRAMS AND OTHER POEMS To Cuma In his Return to Cuma Upon the Sepulchre of Midus Cuma, refusing to eternize their State, etc. An Essay of his begun Iliads To Thestor’s Son inquisitive about the Causes of Things To Neptune To the City of Erythræa To Mariners The Pine To Glaucus Against the Samian Ministress or Nun Written on the Council Chamber The Furnace called in to sing by Potters Eiresione, or the Olive Branch To certain Fisher-Boys pleasing him with Riddles _The Translator’s Epilogue_ CHAPMAN’S INTRODUCTION. TO THE MOST WORTHILY HONOURED, MY SINGULAR GOOD LORD, ROBERT, EARL OF SOMERSET, LORD CHAMBERLAIN, ETC. I have adventured, right noble Earl, out of my utmost and ever-vowed service to your virtues, to entitle their merits to the patronage of Homer’s English life, whose wished natural life the great Macedon would have protected as the spirit of his empire,