Reputed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey

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Sixteen portraits of classical poets and thinkers. Drawing, c. 1789.

Poets: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

Elements of phrenology, physiognomy and palmistry, with diagrams of heads and hands, and portraits of historical figures. Colour lithograph, 1866.

Homer; Thomas Hobbes; and warriors from Greece and Troy; representing Hobbes's translation of the works of Homer. Line engraving, 1677.

A bust reputed to be of Homer. Drawing, c. 1791.

La medicina greca nelle tradizioni mitologiche e omeriche / Con presentazione del Prof. Silvestro Baglioni.

Les origines de la science grecque chez Homère : l'homme et l'univers physique / [Charles Mugler].

Select works of Porphyry : containing his four books on abstinence from animal food; his treatise on the Homeric cave of the nymphs; and his Auxiliaries to the perception of intelligible natures / translated from the Greek by Thomas Taylor. With an appendix, explaining the allegory of the wandering of Ulysses / by the translator.

Aurea catena Homeri : das ist, oder, eine Beschreibung von dem Ursprung der Natur und natürlichen Dingen, wie und woraus sie gebohren und gezeuget, auch wie sie erhalten und wiederum um ihr uranfängliches Wesen zerstöret werden, auch was das Ding sey, welches alles gebäret, und wieder zerstöret, etc. / [Anon].

Wounding and death in the Iliad : Homeric techniques of description / Wolf-Hartmut Friedrich ; translated by Gabriele Wright and Peter Jones ; preface by Peter Jones ; appendix by K.B. Saunders.

De tweede XII boecken Odysseae: dat is, de dolinge van Ulysse. Beschreven int Griecx, door den poëet Homerun ... nu eerstmael uyt het Latijn in rijm verduytscht, door D.V. Coornhert, ende B. D

The whole works of Homer: translated by Alexander Pope, Esquire. Containing the Iliad --- In Twenty-Four Books. The Odyssey --- In Twenty-Four Books. The battle of the frogs and mice. . In Three Books. Together with the Life of Homer. A new edition, revis

Batrachomyomachia Græce ad veterum exemplarium fidem recusa: glossa Græca; variantibus lectionibus; versionibus Latinis; commentariis & indicibus illustrata

Homeri Ilias Græce et Latine, annotationes in usum serenissimi principis Gulielmi Augusti, Ducis de Cumberland, &c. Regio jussu scripsit atque edidit Samuel Clarke, S.T.P. ..

Biography of the blind, including the lives of all those, from Homer down to the present day, who have distinguished themselves as poets, philosophers, artists, &c. &c ... To which is prefixed a memoir of the author / [James Wilson].

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De tweede XII boecken Odysseae: dat is, de dolinge van Ulysse. Beschreven int Griecx, door den poëet Homerun ... nu eerstmael uyt het Latijn in rijm verduytscht, door D.V. Coornhert, ende B. D

The whole works of Homer: translated by Alexander Pope, Esquire. Containing the Iliad --- In Twenty-Four Books. The Odyssey --- In Twenty-Four Books. The battle of the frogs and mice. . In Three Books. Together with the Life of Homer. A new edition, revis

Batrachomyomachia Græce ad veterum exemplarium fidem recusa: glossa Græca; variantibus lectionibus; versionibus Latinis; commentariis & indicibus illustrata

Homeri Ilias Græce et Latine, annotationes in usum serenissimi principis Gulielmi Augusti, Ducis de Cumberland, &c. Regio jussu scripsit atque edidit Samuel Clarke, S.T.P. ..

Biography of the blind, including the lives of all those, from Homer down to the present day, who have distinguished themselves as poets, philosophers, artists, &c. &c ... To which is prefixed a memoir of the author / [James Wilson].

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Homer

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De tweede XII boecken Odysseae: dat is, de dolinge van Ulysse. Beschreven int Griecx, door den poëet Homerun ... nu eerstmael uyt het Latijn in rijm verduytscht, door D.V. Coornhert, ende B. D

The whole works of Homer: translated by Alexander Pope, Esquire. Containing the Iliad --- In Twenty-Four Books. The Odyssey --- In Twenty-Four Books. The battle of the frogs and mice. . In Three Books. Together with the Life of Homer. A new edition, revis

Batrachomyomachia Græce ad veterum exemplarium fidem recusa: glossa Græca; variantibus lectionibus; versionibus Latinis; commentariis & indicibus illustrata

Homeri Ilias Græce et Latine, annotationes in usum serenissimi principis Gulielmi Augusti, Ducis de Cumberland, &c. Regio jussu scripsit atque edidit Samuel Clarke, S.T.P. ..

Biography of the blind, including the lives of all those, from Homer down to the present day, who have distinguished themselves as poets, philosophers, artists, &c. &c ... To which is prefixed a memoir of the author / [James Wilson].

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