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Which books of the Odyssey did William Broome translate for Alexander Pope’s project?
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Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope, portrait by Thomas Hudson, c. 1739; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
For Alexander Pope’s translation of Homer’s Odyssey, the scholar and poet William Broome translated the following eight books:
- 2, 6, 8, 11, 12, 16, 18, and 231