The Iliads of Homer, translated by George Chapman

CSCO · Post by **CSCO** » February 26th, 2019, 8:59 am

Hi, all!

I presume on your kindness again. Oh... Homer is booming now...
Please record it.

link:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51355/51355-0.txt

CSCO · Post by **CSCO** » February 27th, 2019, 8:40 am

>Homer is booming now...

Homer! Homer!! Homer!!!
He said Homer 36 times!

CSCO · Post by **CSCO** » March 7th, 2019, 11:11 am

She ran to Hector, and with her, tender of heart and hand,
Her son, borne in his nurse's arms; when, like a heav'nly sign,
Compact of many golden stars, the princely child did shine,
Whom Hector call'd Scamandrius, but whom the town did name
Astyanax, because his sire did only prop the same.

CSCO · Post by **CSCO** » March 27th, 2019, 9:35 am

Walk up! Walk up!

Gregg · Post by **Gregg** » April 4th, 2019, 8:20 am

Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne;
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He star'd at the Pacific—and all his men
Look'd at each other with a wild surmise—
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

of course on librivox it should not be silent, but i'd be glad to decorously declaim from the peak

CSCO · Post by **CSCO** » April 5th, 2019, 4:21 am

You will accept the load, won't you?

Someones bear ever and ever, but I never.
Your name resounds forever!

Thanks a lot!

Post by **TriciaG** » November 17th, 2023, 6:26 am

Someone on Twitter requested this translation of the Iliad as well, so I'm bumping up this suggestion.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51355