Homer

  • The Camp at Night

    From the Greek by George Chapman
    From “The Iliad,” Book VIII.
        THE WINDS transferred into the friendly sky
    Their supper’s savor; to the which they sat delightfully,
    And spent all night in open field; fires round about them shined.
    As when about the silver...

  • Hector to His Wife

    From the Greek by E. C. Hawtrey
    From “The Iliad,” Book VI.
       [The following extract is given as showing a more modern style of translation. It embraces the bracketed portion of the foregoing from Pope’s version.]

    I TOO have thought of all this, dear wife, but I fear the...

  • Parting of Hector and Andromache

    From the Greek by Alexander Pope
    From “The Iliad,” Book VI.
      “TOO daring prince! ah whither dost thou run?
    Ah too forgetful of thy wife and son!
    And think’st thou not how wretched we shall be,
    A widow I, a helpless orphan he!
    For sure such courage...