The Collection·Room IV · The Western Canon·The Odyssey
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HOMER · TRANS. BUTLER, 1900
The Odyssey
The road-opening lines of Western literature: the invocation of the Odyssey, monumental, in Samuel Butler's public-domain prose.
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| source | The Odyssey, Book I, translated by Samuel Butler, 1900 |
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| typeface | Caslon |
| paper | 100 lb cream cover, 18 x 24 |
| press | Thomas Graphics, Austin, Texas |
| edition | Numbered of 250, cotton paper, embossed maker's mark |
The invocation of the Odyssey, the oldest opening lines in Western literature, in Samuel Butler's 1900 translation, trimmed at 'bring his men safely home'; the sentence continues into the folly of the crew. Homer begins with a man trying to get home, and the West begins with Homer.
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