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Translating an Oral Tradition into Writing

The Iliad of Homer
Book of Ritual Spells for Medical Problems (Mich, Ms. 136)
University of Michigan excavation in progress at Karanis, Egypt
Iliad. Book 18. 393-617 (with extensive lacunae) (P. Mich. Inv. 3160)
Iliad. Book 10. 421-434, 445-460 (P. Mich. Inv. 6972)
Iliad. Book 1. 397-520 (P. Mich. Inv. 2810)
Odyssey. Book 9. 384-391 (P. Mich. inv. 5636)
Odyssey. Book 10. 527-556 (P. Mich. Inv. 3786)
Odyssey. Book 22. 226-241 (P. Mich. Inv. 1220)
Scholia minora to Iliad 1. 1-9 (P. Mich. Inv. 1588)
Fragments of a lexicon dealing with Homeric words in πολυ-, πορ-, and probably ποσ-. (P. Mich. Inv. 5451)
Venetus A

Translating Homer into Print

Map of Constantinople from Liber insularum Archipielagi
Homerus. Opera. Ed: Demetrius Chalcondylas
Aldus Odyssey
Aldus Odyssey
Aldus Odyssey
Aldus Odyssey
Aldus Odyssey

The Latin Homer

ODYSSEAE Homeri libri XXIIII. nuper à Simone Lemnio Emporico Rheto Curiensi, Heroico Latino carmine facti, & à mendis quibusdam priorum translationum repurgati. Accessit et Batrachomyomachia Homeri, ab eodem secundum Græcum Hexametro Latinitate donata.
ODYSSEAE Homeri libri XXIIII. nuper à Simone Lemnio Emporico Rheto Curiensi, Heroico Latino carmine facti, & à mendis quibusdam priorum translationum repurgati. Accessit et Batrachomyomachia Homeri, ab eodem secundum Græcum Hexametro Latinitate donata.
ΗΡΩΙΚΑ. ΟΜΗΡΟΥ ΙΛΙΑΣ, Homeri Ilias, Postrema Editio: Cui originem & exitum belli Troiani addidimus, Coluthi Helenæ raptum: & Tryphiodori Ilij excidium. Latinè omnia ad verbum exposita. Et à F. Porto Cretensi innumeris in locis emendata.
ΗΡΩΙΚΑ. ΟΜΗΡΟΥ ΙΛΙΑΣ, Homeri Ilias, Postrema Editio: Cui originem & exitum belli Troiani addidimus, Coluthi Helenæ raptum: & Tryphiodori Ilij excidium. Latinè omnia ad verbum exposita. Et à F. Porto Cretensi innumeris in locis emendata.
ΗΡΩΙΚΑ. ΟΜΗΡΟΥ ΙΛΙΑΣ, Homeri Ilias, Postrema Editio: Cui originem & exitum belli Troiani addidimus, Coluthi Helenæ raptum: & Tryphiodori Ilij excidium. Latinè omnia ad verbum exposita. Et à F. Porto Cretensi innumeris in locis emendata.
Homerici Centones, à veteribus vocati Ὁμερόκεντρα. Virgiliani Centones. Utrique in quædam historiæ sacræ capita scripti. Nonni paraphrasis evangelii Ιoannis, Græcè & Latiné
Homerici Centones, à veteribus vocati Ὁμερόκεντρα. Virgiliani Centones. Utrique in quædam historiæ sacræ capita scripti. Nonni paraphrasis evangelii Ιoannis, Græcè & Latiné
Homerici Centones, à veteribus vocati Ὁμερόκεντρα. Virgiliani Centones. Utrique in quædam historiæ sacræ capita scripti. Nonni paraphrasis evangelii Ιoannis, Græcè & Latiné

Homer in the Vernacular

Les XXIIIΙ. Livres de l’Iliade d’Homere, Prince des Poëtes Grecs. Traduicts du Grec en vers François. Les XI. Premiers par M. Hugues Salel, Abbé de Sainct Cheron, et Les XIII. Derniers par Amadis Iamyn….Le premier et second de l’Odyssee d’Homere, par Iaques Peletier du Mans.
Les XXIIIΙ. Livres de l’Iliade d’Homere, Prince des Poëtes Grecs. Traduicts du Grec en vers François. Les XI. Premiers par M. Hugues Salel, Abbé de Sainct Cheron, et Les XIII. Derniers par Amadis Iamyn….Le premier et second de l’Odyssee d’Homere, par Iaques Peletier du Mans.
La Ulixea de Homero, traducida de Griego en lengua Castellana por el secretario Gonzalo Perez.
La Ulixea de Homero, traducida de Griego en lengua Castellana por el secretario Gonzalo Perez.
Deerste twaelf boecken Odysseæ, dat is de dolinghe van Ulysse, besc[h]reué int Griecx door den Poeet Homerum vadere ende fonteyne alder Poeten, nu eerstmael wten Latijne in rijm verduytscht door Dierick Coornhert.
Deerste twaelf boecken Odysseæ, dat is de dolinghe van Ulysse, besc[h]reué int Griecx door den Poeet Homerum vadere ende fonteyne alder Poeten, nu eerstmael wten Latijne in rijm verduytscht door Dierick Coornhert.
Deerste twaelf boecken Odysseæ, dat is de dolinghe van Ulysse, besc[h]reué int Griecx door den Poeet Homerum vadere ende fonteyne alder Poeten, nu eerstmael wten Latijne in rijm verduytscht door Dierick Coornhert.
L’Achille et l’enea di messer Lodovico Dolce. Dove egli tessendo l’historia della Iliade d’Homero à quella dell’Eneide di Vergilio, ambedue l’ha divinamente ridotte in ottava rima. Con argomenti, et allegorie per ogni canto….
L’Achille et l’enea di messer Lodovico Dolce. Dove egli tessendo l’historia della Iliade d’Homero à quella dell’Eneide di Vergilio, ambedue l’ha divinamente ridotte in ottava rima. Con argomenti, et allegorie per ogni canto….
L’Achille et l’enea di messer Lodovico Dolce. Dove egli tessendo l’historia della Iliade d’Homero à quella dell’Eneide di Vergilio, ambedue l’ha divinamente ridotte in ottava rima. Con argomenti, et allegorie per ogni canto….
L’Achille et l’enea di messer Lodovico Dolce. Dove egli tessendo l’historia della Iliade d’Homero à quella dell’Eneide di Vergilio, ambedue l’ha divinamente ridotte in ottava rima. Con argomenti, et allegorie per ogni canto….
L’Achille et l’enea di messer Lodovico Dolce. Dove egli tessendo l’historia della Iliade d’Homero à quella dell’Eneide di Vergilio, ambedue l’ha divinamente ridotte in ottava rima. Con argomenti, et allegorie per ogni canto….

The Englished Homer

The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. Neuer before in any languag[e] truely translated. With a co[m]ment uppon some of his chiefe places; Donne according to the Greeke
The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. Neuer before in any languag[e] truely translated. With a co[m]ment uppon some of his chiefe places; Donne according to the Greeke
The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. Neuer before in any languag[e] truely translated. With a co[m]ment uppon some of his chiefe places; Donne according to the Greeke
The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. Neuer before in any languag[e] truely translated. With a co[m]ment uppon some of his chiefe places; Donne according to the Greeke
The Workes of Homer
The Workes of Homer
Fables Ancient and Modern; Translated into Verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer: with original poems
Fables Ancient and Modern; Translated into Verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer: with original poems

Poetry into Images: John Ogilby

Homer his Odysses translated, adorn'd with sculpture, and illustrated with annotations
Homer his Odysses translated, adorn'd with sculpture, and illustrated with annotations
Homer his Odysses translated, adorn'd with sculpture, and illustrated with annotations

Alexander Pope

The Iliad of Homer
The Iliad of Homer
The Iliad of Homer
The Iliad of Homer
The Iliad of Homer
The Odyssey of Homer
The Odyssey of Homer
The Odyssey of Homer

The Scholarly and the Burlesque

Commentarii in librum primum [et secundum] Iliados Homeri, Auctore Ioachimo Camerario. Eiusdem libri primi Iliados conuersio in Latinos versus, eodem auctore. Accesserunt insuper Græca verba cum interpretatione Latina è regione posita. Omnia nunc denuo fidelius & accuratius quàm antea edita
Homerici Centones, à veteribus vocati Ὁμερόκεντρα. Virgiliani Centones. Utrique in quædam historiæ sacræ capita scripti. Nonni paraphrasis evangelii Ιoannis, Græcè & Latiné
Homerici Centones, à veteribus vocati Ὁμερόκεντρα. Virgiliani Centones. Utrique in quædam historiæ sacræ capita scripti. Nonni paraphrasis evangelii Ιoannis, Græcè & Latiné
Prolegomena ad Homerum sive de Operum Homericorum prisca et genuina forma variisque mutationibus et probabili ratione emendandi. Homeri et Homeridarum opera et reliquiae. Ex veterum criticorum notationibus optimorumque exemplarium .de recensuit Frid. Aug. Wol.us.
Prolegomena ad Homerum sive de Operum Homericorum prisca et genuina forma variisque mutationibus et probabili ratione emendandi. Homeri et Homeridarum opera et reliquiae. Ex veterum criticorum notationibus optimorumque exemplarium .de recensuit Frid. Aug. Wol.us.
ΟΜΗΡΟΥ ΑΠΑΝΤΑ. Η. Ε Homeri opera omnia, ex recensione et cum notis Samuelis Clarkii, s.t.p.
ΟΜΗΡΟΥ ΑΠΑΝΤΑ. Η. Ε Homeri opera omnia, ex recensione et cum notis Samuelis Clarkii, s.t.p.
ΟΜΗΡΟΥ ΑΠΑΝΤΑ. Η. Ε Homeri opera omnia, ex recensione et cum notis Samuelis Clarkii, s.t.p.
A Burlesque Translation of Homer
A Burlesque Translation of Homer
A Burlesque Translation of Homer