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The Authoress of the Odyssey / Where and when she wrote, who she was, the use she made of the Iliad, and how the poem grew under her hands — Samuel Butler

The Authoress of the Odyssey / Where and when she wrote, who she was, the use she made of the Iliad, and how the poem grew under her hands

Samuel Butler

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 301 pages

A literary essay in which Samuel Butler argues that the Odyssey was composed by a woman, likely in Sicily, and traces how the poem grew and used the Iliad. An engaging exercise in literary detection for readers curious about Homer and questions of authorship.

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THE AUTHORESS
OF THE
ODYSSEY,
WHERE AND WHEN SHE WROTE, WHO SHE WAS, THE
USE SHE
MADE OF THE ILIAD,
AND
HOW THE POEM GREW UNDER HER HANDS,
BY
SAMUEL BUTLER
AUTHOR OF "EREWHON," "LIFE AND HABIT," "ALPS AND
SANCTUARIES,"
"THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF DR. SAMUEL BUTLER," ETC.
"There is no single fact to justify a conviction," said
Mr. Cock; whereon the Solicitor General replied that
he did not rely upon any single fact, but upon a
chain of facts, which taken all together left no
possible means of escape.
Times, Leader, Nov. 16, 1894.
(The prisoner was convicted).

New York

E. P. Dutton & Company

1922

Nausicaa (See Preface). (Frontispiece.)

AL PROFESSORE

CAV. BIAGIO INGROIA,

PREZIOSO ALLEATO

L'AUTORE RICONOSCENTE.

PREFACE.

The following work consists in some measure of matter already published in England and Italy during the last six years. The original publications were in the Athenœum, Jan. 30 and Feb. 20, 1892, and in the Eagle for the Lent Term, 1892, and for the October Term, 1892.

Both these last two articles were re-published by Messrs. Metcalfe &

Co. of Cambridge, with prefaces, in the second case of considerable length. I have also drawn from sundry letters and articles that appeared in Il Lambruschini, a journal published at Trapani and edited by Prof. Giacalone-Patti, in 1892 and succeeding years, as also from two articles that appeared in the Rassegna della Letteratura Siciliana, published at Acireale in the autumn of 1893 and of 1894, and from some articles published in the Italian Gazette (then edited by Miss

Helen Zimmern) in the spring of 1895.

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Contents

  1. THE AUTHORESS OF THE ODYSSEY,
  2. WHERE AND WHEN SHE WROTE, WHO SHE WAS, THE USE SHE MADE OF THE ILIAD,
  3. HOW THE POEM GREW UNDER HER HANDS,
  4. SAMUEL BUTLER
  5. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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