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.

Description

Main Author

Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902

Related Names

Metcalfe & Co. (Cambridge, England)
Longmans, Green, and Co.

Language(s)

English

Published

Cambridge : Printed by Metcalfe and Co. Limited
London, New York and Bombay : Longmans, Green, and Co., 39 Paternoster Row, 1897.

Subjects

Homer. > Homer. / Odyssey.
Odysseus, > Odysseus, / King of Ithaca (Mythological character)
Homer.
Homer > Homer / Authorship.
Odysseus, > Odysseus, / King of Ithaca (Mythological character) > Odysseus, / King of Ithaca (Mythological character) / In literature.
Homer. > Homer. / Odyssey.
Odyssey (Homer)
Women and literature.
Literature.
Epic poetry, Greek > Epic poetry, Greek / Authorship.
Authorship.
Women and literature > Women and literature / Greece.
Epic poetry, Greek > Epic poetry, Greek / Authorship.
Greece.
Authors' presentation copies (Provenance)

Note

Frontispiece portrait captioned "Nausicaa. (See Preface)."
Includes index.

Physical Description

xv, 1 unnumbered page, 275 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait, plans, maps ; 23 cm

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