Thomas Hobbes: Translations of Homer: The Iliad and the Odyssey
Eric Nelson (ed.)
Clarendon Press (2008) Copy BIBTEX
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Eric Nelson presents the first critical edition of the translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey composed by the great seventeenth-century philosopher and political theorist Thomas Hobbes. Nelson shows that these translations are not only of great literary interest but offer special insights into Hobbes's own thoughtOther Versions
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