Author of Audiobooks - Homer
The Iliad - Homer
The Iliad - Homer
- Author: Homer
- Genre: Epics
The Iliad, together with the Odyssey, is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly dated to the 8th or 7th century BC, and many scholars believe it is the oldest extant work of literature in the...
The Iliad (Pope Translation) - Homer
The Iliad (Pope Translation) - Homer
- Author: Homer
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Historical Fiction / Epics
Homer’s Iliad is the first great work of Western literature. Composed in twenty-four books of Greek hexameter poetry, it portrays the events of the last year of the Trojan War. Its translation into rhyming couplets by Alexander Pope is considered by...
The Odysseys of Homer - Homer
The Odysseys of Homer - Homer
- Author: Homer
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Epics
The Odysseys are a collection of stories about Ulysses' journey home from the war at Troy purportedly written in the 8th century BCE by Homer, a blind poet thought to have lived in the Greek colonies in Asia Minor, possibly at Smyrna. The events...
The Iliad of Homer - Homer
The Iliad of Homer - Homer
- Author: Homer
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"The Iliad is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set in the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of Ilium, by a coalition of Greek States, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King...
The Iliad of Homer, Rendered into English Blank Verse - Homer
The Iliad of Homer, Rendered into English Blank Verse - Homer
- Author: Homer
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)
"It must equally be considered a splendid performance; and for the present we have no hesitation in saying that it is by far the best representation of Homer's Iliad in the English language." - London Times, 1865 "The merits of Lord Derby's...
The Odyssey (Version 3) - Homer
The Odyssey (Version 3) - Homer
- Author: Homer
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)
The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other Homeric epic. The Odyssey is fundamental to the modern Western canon; it is the second-oldest extant work of Western...
The Odyssey - Homer
The Odyssey - Homer
- Author: Homer
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Nautical & Marine Fiction
The Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems (the other being the Iliad), attributed to the poet Homer. The poem is commonly dated to between 800 and 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, and concerns the events that...
Homeric Hymns, Epigrams, and The Battle of Frogs and Mice - Homer
Homeric Hymns, Epigrams, and The Battle of Frogs and Mice - Homer
- Author: Homer
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Homeric Hymns are thirty-three poems each paying homage to a certain Greek god. Only a few of the poems are more than 250 lines while the rest are about a dozen lines each. They are written in Homeric style and traditionally attributed to Homer but...