About this edition

A complete edition of the surviving works of Homer (Ὅμηρος) (fl. c. 750 BC), translated in a single voice with the Ancient Greek alongside.

What's here

Every work transmitted under Homer's name: the Iliad in twenty-four books, the Odyssey in twenty-four, the thirty-three Homeric Hymns, the Battle of Frogs and Mice, and the sixteen Epigrams — each with the Greek facing the English, a headnote, and the glossary, chronology and cross-reference apparatus.

From the Ancient Greek

Every translation was produced by reading the Ancient Greek text directly, not by copying or adapting any prior edition. The Ancient Greek comes from open scholarly sources.

How to use this

Read the Iliad and the Odyssey straight through, or jump by book number; the Hymns work well one at a time. Follow any name into the glossary, and use the facing Greek to check a line — an epithet, a formula, a disputed verse — against the original.

Citation and reuse

The translation, the headnotes, and the editorial apparatus are released under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — share and adapt with attribution, non-commercial use only, derivatives under the same licence.

Status

5 works translated in this language.