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Supervised by
Ada Palmer
at the University of Chicago
Chicago, USA
2015
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Homer Among the Moderns
Copyright
Acknowledgements
Note to the Online Edition
Preface
Table of Contents
Introduction
Section One: Printing and Publication
Introduction
Chapter One
First Impressions: the
editio princeps
of 1489
Chapter Two
Ogilby and the
Odyssey
Chapter Three
Fancy That: An Essay on Hobbes' Homer
Chapter Four
Literary London: Pope's
Iliad
and the Eighteenth-Century Book Trade
Section Two: Translation Practices
Introduction
Chapter Five
Constructions of Authorship in Valla's
Iliad
Chapter Six
The Editorial and Ideological Project of Lodovico Dolce’s
L’Achille et l’Enea
Chapter Seven
The Thing's a Sling: Source Squabbles and Mistranslation in Chapman's 1611
Iliad
Chapter Eight
Paratext as Metatext and Metafiction: Contextualizing Honest Satire in Thomas Bridges’
A Burlesque Translation of Homer
Section Three: Images
Introduction
Chapter Nine
Illustrating the Classics and the Self: John Ogilby and his Self-Fashioning Portraits
Chapter Ten
Expectation and Image(-ination): The Purpose and Reuse of Woodcuts in the Books of Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari
Chapter Eleven
In Chapman’s Forge: Mistranslation as Ekphrastic Resistance
Chapter Twelve
Henri Estienne’s Concepts of History and Poetry
Section Four: Nationalism and National Identity
Introduction
Chapter Thirteen
Homer, Venice, and Byzantium: Aldus Manutius’ First Edition of the
Iliad
Chapter Fourteen
Alfonso, Valla, & Homer: Poetry and Politics in Renaissance Naples
Chapter Fifteen
The Language Question: Cultural Politics of the Medici Dynasty
Chapter Sixteen
Translating Homer in the French Renaissance: The 1584 French Verse Translation of the
Iliad
Chapter Seventeen
“Too Much of a Modern Beau”: Macpherson’s
Iliad
and the Nationalist Epic
Conclusion
Appendix
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