Word: odyssey
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Death of Penelope" Mr. Butler-Thwing presents an admirably conceived dramatic possibility for an afterword to the Odyssey. The work faithfully reproduces the spirit of Homer, and the verse compares favorably with Bryant's translation. The poem displays high imagination: and is by long odds the best verse the Monthly has published this year...
...vesper address, a chapel talk, and an address in Herrick Chapel, when the four students of the class of 1913 having the highest scholarship records were admitted to membership in Beta Chapter of Iowa Phi Beta Kappa. He has also given a reading from his own translation of the Odyssey and an address on the "Commercial Aspects of Education." He gave last week an address before the Humboldt Society on "The Place of the Lecture in College Teaching...
...much to arouse enthusiasm for ancient literature by giving public readings, nor did he, when called to his chosen subject, abandon his interests in the classics or fail to make notable contributions to the difficult art of interpreting ancient culture to our day. His translation of Homer's "Odyssey" (1891) and that of "Antigone" of Sophocles (1899) are at once masterpieces of English and faithful reproductions, if over such are pos- sible, of the spirit of the originals. His brief introduction to the "Antigone" in which he discusses the nature of Greek tragedy, makes us wish that he had written...