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Samuel Butler, author of Homer’s Odyssey

Books by this author

Homer’s Odyssey

as told by Nausikaa: The 1900 Translation by Samuel Butler

A radical translation of a revered ancient text attributes it not to Homer but a young Sicilian…

£17.95

The Authoress of The Odyssey

Samuel Butler’s 1897 overturning of conventional ideas about Homer’s epic poem.

£16.95

Samuel Butler

Victorian author, polymath and classical scholar. Famous for predicting Artificial Intelligence in 1863 and for his controversial theory that The Odyssey was written by a woman. His 1900 prose translation and his study The Authoress of The Odyssey are both published by EnvelopeBooks.