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The Iliad: by Homer
480 pages, Hardcover
Published April 13, 2025
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Samuel Butler
814 books211 followersFor the author of Hudibras, see Samuel Butler.
Samuel Butler was an iconoclastic Victorian author who published a variety of works, including the Utopian satire Erewhon and the posthumous novel The Way of All Flesh, his two best-known works, but also extending to examinations of Christian orthodoxy, substantive studies of evolutionary thought, studies of Italian art, and works of literary history and criticism. Butler also made prose translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey which remain in use to this day.
See also: Samuel H. Butcher, Anglo-Irish classicist, who also undertook prose translations of Homer's works (in collaboration with Andrew Lang.
Samuel Butler was an iconoclastic Victorian author who published a variety of works, including the Utopian satire Erewhon and the posthumous novel The Way of All Flesh, his two best-known works, but also extending to examinations of Christian orthodoxy, substantive studies of evolutionary thought, studies of Italian art, and works of literary history and criticism. Butler also made prose translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey which remain in use to this day.
See also: Samuel H. Butcher, Anglo-Irish classicist, who also undertook prose translations of Homer's works (in collaboration with Andrew Lang.
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July 2, 2026
Shoutout to Chillbooks on youtube for a great, free audiobook.
It was... fine. Undeniably iconic given this story is still discussed nearly three millennia later, but I found myself frequently disengaged. I can only read lines like "Glib, son of Glob, killed Shoopy, son of Moopy" so many times and still stick with it. I am glad I held on, though, because I became a bit more interested once the gods began swaying the war. It's compelling to have the Olympians split on the issue and even better when you dive into their individual motivations; mostly jealousy.
Certainly an important story to human history; just not that important to me.
It was... fine. Undeniably iconic given this story is still discussed nearly three millennia later, but I found myself frequently disengaged. I can only read lines like "Glib, son of Glob, killed Shoopy, son of Moopy" so many times and still stick with it. I am glad I held on, though, because I became a bit more interested once the gods began swaying the war. It's compelling to have the Olympians split on the issue and even better when you dive into their individual motivations; mostly jealousy.
Certainly an important story to human history; just not that important to me.
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