The Iliad of Homer

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Title: The Iliad of Homer
Translated into English Blank Verse
Author: Homer
Translator: William Cowper
Release Date: August 5, 2005 [EBook #16452]
Language: English
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THE
ILIAD OF HOMER,
TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BLANK VERSE
BY WILLIAM COWPER.

[Illustration, depicting Zeus (Jupiter) seated upon an eagle.]
EDITED BY ROBERT SOUTHEY. LL.D.

WITH NOTES,
BY M.A. DWIGHT,
AUTHOR OF "GRECIAN AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY."

NEW-YORK:
D. APPLETON & CO., 346 & 348 BROADWAY.
M.DCCC.LX.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849,
BY M.A. DWIGHT,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the
Southern District of New York.
TO THE
RIGHT HONORABLE
EARL COWPER,

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