The attempt is not to be considered as seeking a comparison with
any of the direct translations of the Odyssey, either in prose or verse,
though if I were to state the obligations which I have had to one obsolete
version, [Footnote: The translation of Homer by Chapman in the reign of
James I.] I should run the hazard of depriving myself of the very slender
degree of reputation which I could hope to acquire from a trifle like the
present undertaking.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
The Cicons.--The Fruit of the Lotus-tree.--Polyphemus and the Cyclops.--
The Kingdom of the Winds, and God Aeolus's Fatal Present.--The
Laestrygonian Man-eaters.
CHAPTER TWO
The House of Circe.--Men changed into Beasts.--The Voyage to Hell.--The
Banquet of the Dead.
CHAPTER THREE
The Song of the Sirens.--Scylla and Charybdis.--The Oxen of the Sun.--The
Judgment.--The Crew Killed by Lightning.
CHAPTER FOUR
The Island of Calypso.--Immortality Refused.
CHAPTER FIVE
The Tempest.--The Sea-bird's Gift.--The Escape by Swimming.--The Sleep in
the Woods.
CHAPTER SIX
The Princess Nausicaa.--The Washing.--The Game with the Ball.--The Court
of Phaeacia and King Alcinous.
CHAPTER SEVEN
The Songs of Demodocus--The Convoy Home.--The Manners--Transformed to
Stone--The Young Shepherd.
CHAPTER EIGHT
The Change from a King to a Beggar.--Eumaeus and the Herdsmen--Telemachus.
CHAPTER NINE
The Queen's Suitors--The Battle of the Beggars.--The Armour Taken Down.
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