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Books about Homer:

• Antehomerica, Homerica et Posthomerica, ex Recensione Immanuelis Bekkeri, Accedunt Excerpta ex Chrestomathia Procli (in Greek with Latin notes; Berlin: Imp. G. Reimeri, 1816), by John Tzetzes, ed. by Immanuel Bekker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Homer and His Age, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
• The World of Homer (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1910), by Andrew Lang
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Authoress of the Odyssey (second edition, 1922), by Samuel Butler (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis, by Casey Dué (HTML at Harvard)

• Taking Her Seriously: Penelope and the Plot of Homer's Odyssey (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Richard Heitman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Penelope in the Odyssey (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1916), by J. W. Mackail (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Complete Concordance to the Odyssey and Hymns of Homer; To Which is Added a Concordance to the Parallel Passages in the Iliad, Odyssey, and Hymns (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1880), by Henry Dunbar
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Poetry in Speech: Orality and Homeric Discourse (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1997), by Egbert J. Bakker (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Homer: The Poetry of the Past (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1992), by Andrew Laughlin Ford (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Homerische Untersuchungen (in German; Berlin: Weidmann, 1884), by Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Humour of Homer, and Other Essays, by Samuel Butler, ed. by R. A. Streatfeild, contrib. by Henry Festing Jones (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Limits of Heroism: Homer and the Ethics of Reading (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), by Mark Buchan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Homer and History (London: Macmillan, 1915), by Walter Leaf (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sprachliche Untersuchungen zu Homer (in German; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1916), by Jacob Wackernagel (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Artistry of the Homeric Simile (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Library and Dartmouth College Press; Published by University Press of New England, c2009), by William C. Scott
  • multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing
  • PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE
• The Oral Nature of the Homeric Simile (Leiden: Brill, 1974), by William C. Scott (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

• Homeric Questions (originally published 1996), by Gregory Nagy (HTML at Harvard)
• The Unity of Homer (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1921), by John A. Scott (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Homerische Becher (as originally published in the 50th Winckelmannsfeste program, in German; Berlin: G. Reimer, 1890), by Carl Robert
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Minor Poems of Homer: The Battle of the Frogs and Mice; Hymns and Epigrams (with introductions by Coleridge and a Life of Homer spuriously attributed to Herodotus; New York: A. Denham and Co., 1872), by Homer, trans. by Thomas Parnell, George Chapman, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Congreve, Richard Hole, and Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie, contrib. by Henry Nelson Coleridge and Pseudo-Herodotus
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• On Translating Homer (with a reply by Newman, and Arnold's reply to Newman; London: G. Routledge and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., n.d.), by Matthew Arnold, contrib. by F. W. Newman
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Power of Thetis: Allusion and Interpretation in the Iliad (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Laura M. Slatkin (HTML at UC Press)
• A Companion to the Iliad, for English Readers (London and New York: Macmillan, 1892), by Walter Leaf
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis, by Casey Dué (HTML at Harvard)

• Taking Her Seriously: Penelope and the Plot of Homer's Odyssey (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Richard Heitman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Limits of Heroism: Homer and the Ethics of Reading (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), by Mark Buchan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dante's Epic Journeys (originally published 1974; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by David Thompson (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Authoress of the Odyssey (second edition, 1922), by Samuel Butler (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Commentarii ad Homeri Odysseam (2 volumes, in Greek, with some Latin; Leipzig: J. A. G. Weigel, 1825-1826), by Archbishop of Thessalonica Eustathius, ed. by Gottfried Stallbaum (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Disastrous Love Affair of Moon and Mars: Celestial Sex, Earthly Destruction, and Dramatic Sublimation in Homer's Odyssey, by Alfred De Grazia (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)
• Odyssee und Argonautika: Untersuchungen zur Griechischen Sagengeschichte und zum Epos (in German; Berlin: Weidmann, 1921), by Karl Meuli
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Pays Atlantiques Décrits par Homère: Ibérie, Gaule, Bretagne, Archipels, Amérique (in French; Paris: Maisonneuve et cie, 1879), by Théophile Cailleux
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Penelope in the Odyssey (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1916), by J. W. Mackail (page images at HathiTrust)

Books by Homer:

• Homer, contrib.: The Adventures of Ulysses the Wanderer: An Old Story Retold (London: Greening and Co., 1902), by C. Ranger Gull
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Homer, contrib.: The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury (11 volumes; 1839-1845), by Thomas Hobbes, also contrib. by Thucydides (Gutenberg texts)
• Homer, contrib.: Fables Ancient And Modern Translated Into Verse From Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer, With Orginal Poems, by Mr. Dryden (London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1700), by John Dryden, also contrib. by 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Geoffrey Chaucer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
• Homer, contrib.: Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica (English-language portion only), ed. by Douglas B. Killings, trans. by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, also contrib. by Hesiod (Gutenberg text)
• Homer: Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica (Loeb Classical Library edition; London: W. Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1914), also by Hesiod, trans. by Hugh G. Evelyn-White
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Homer: Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica (Loeb Classical Library edition; London: W. Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1920), also by Hesiod, trans. by Hugh G. Evelyn-White
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Homer: The Homeric Hymns (HTML at mcllibrary.org)
• Homer: The Iliad (multiple editions)
• Homer: The Iliad, trans. by Samuel Butler (Gutenberg text)
• Homer: The Iliad (third edition, 2012), trans. by Ian Johnston (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications)
• Homer: The Iliad, trans. by Walter Leaf, Andrew Lang, and Ernest Myers (Gutenberg text)
• Homer: The Iliad, ed. by Theodore Alois Buckley, trans. by Alexander Pope, illust. by John Flaxman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Homer: The Iliad, trans. by A. T. Murray (Javascript-dependent HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• Homer: The Iliad, Abridged (c2008), trans. by Ian Johnston (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications)
• Homer, contrib.: The Iliad for Boys and Girls, Told From Homer in Simple Language (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1907), by Alfred John Church
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg audio reading
• Homer: The Iliad of Homer, Books IX and X (in Greek, with English notes; Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1902), ed. by J. C. Lawson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Homer: The Iliad of Homer, Literally Translated, With Explanatory Notes (London: Bell and Daldy, 1873), trans. by Theodore Alois Buckley (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Homer: The Iliad of Homer, Rendered into English Blank Verse, trans. by Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley Derby (Gutenberg text)
• Homer: The Iliad of Homer: Rendered Into English Prose for the Use of Those Who Cannot Read the Original (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898), trans. by Samuel Butler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Homer: The Iliad of Homer, Translated Into English Blank Verse (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1860), ed. by Robert Southey, trans. by William Cowper, contrib. by M. A. Dwight (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Homer: The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, Never Before in Any Language Truly Translated, With a Comment on Some of His Chief Places (third edition, 2 volumes; London: J. R. Smith, 1888), ed. by Richard Hooper, trans. by George Chapman
  • both volumes; HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Homer: L'Iliade (in French), trans. by Leconte de Lisle (Gutenberg text and RTF)
• Homer: L'Odyssée (in French), trans. by Leconte de Lisle (Gutenberg text and RTF)
• Homer: The Minor Poems of Homer: The Battle of the Frogs and Mice; Hymns and Epigrams (with introductions by Coleridge and a Life of Homer spuriously attributed to Herodotus; New York: A. Denham and Co., 1872), trans. by Thomas Parnell, George Chapman, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Congreve, Richard Hole, and Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie, contrib. by Henry Nelson Coleridge and Pseudo-Herodotus
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Homer: The Odyssey (multiple editions)
• Homer: The Odyssey (third edition, 2010), trans. by Ian Johnston (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications)
• Homer: The Odyssey, trans. by A. T. Murray (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• Homer: The Odyssey, Abridged (third edition, c2012), trans. by Ian Johnston (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications)
• Homer, contrib.: The Odyssey for Boys and Girls (New York: Macmillan, 1906), by Alfred John Church (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Homer: The Odyssey of Homer (Everyman's Library edition; London: J. M. Dent and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., n.d.), trans. by William Cowper (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Homer: The Odyssey of Homer, trans. by Alexander Pope (Gutenberg text)
• Homer: The Odyssey of Homer, Done Into English Prose, trans. by S. H. Butcher and Andrew Lang
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bartleby
• Homer: The Odyssey, Rendered Into English Prose for the Use of Those Who Cannot Read the Original (London: A. C. Fifield, n.d.), trans. by Samuel Butler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Homer: The Odyssey, Rendered Into English Prose for the Use of Those Who Cannot Read the Original (based on the second edition of 1921), ed. by Henry Festing Jones, trans. by Samuel Butler (Gutenberg text)
• Homer: The Odysseys of Homer (London: J. R. Smith, 1857), trans. by George Chapman (HTML at Bartleby)
• Homer, contrib.: Stories From the Odyssey, by H. L. Havell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Homer, contrib.: The Story of the Odyssey, by Alfred John Church (Gutenberg text)
• Homer, contrib.: The Works of George Chapman (3 volumes (Plays; Poems and Minor Translations; Homer's Iliad and Odyssey); London: Chatto and Windus, 1874-1875), by George Chapman, ed. by Richard Herne Shepherd, also contrib. by Algernon Charles Swinburne (page images at HathiTrust)