Odyssey (George Chapman translation)

Homer's Odysses is an English translation of Homer's Odyssey by writer George Chapman. It was published around 1614 to 1615. It is widely known as the first complete translation of the poem into the English language.

Chapman spent twenty-six years translating works traditionally attributed to Homer. His complete Iliad was released in 1611, written in rhyming fourteeners. For Odyssey, he changed the blank verse and dactylic hexameter of the original Homeric Greek to rhyming couplets of iambic pentameter, establishing a new standard for translations of Greek and Latin hexameter.

Chapman said he was inspired by the ghost of Homer. His translation is discussed within the historical context of the Elizabethan era and is seen to characterise Odysseus as a Christian hero.