The Odyssey — Homer
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Beginning
by Homer
rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original
PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION
This translation is intended to supplement a work entitled “The Authoress of the Odyssey”, which I published in 1897. I could not give the whole “Odyssey” in that book without making it unwieldy, I therefore epitomised my translation, which was already completed and which I now publish in full.
I shall not here argue the two main points dealt with in the work just mentioned; I have nothing either to add to, or to withdraw from, what I have there written. The points in question are:
(1) that the “Odyssey” was written entirely at, and drawn entirely from, the place now called Trapani on…
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