@article{515614,
      recid = {515614},
      author = {Homer.},
      title = {The works of Homer, the celebrated Grecian poet: including  new and complete editions of the Iliad, and the Odyssey;  Those very celebrated and universally-admited Epic or  Heroic Poems. The Iliad-in twenty four Books-Being composed  on the Subject of the memorable Siege of Troy-Interspersed  with the most beautiful Allegories, and containing a most  sublime Description of the Battles between the Greeks and  Trojans, during a Ten Years Siege, in which the Great and  Valiant Achilles, the principal Hero of the War, after his  Reconciliation with Agamemnon, slew Hector with his own  Hand, and afterwards dragged the Corpse at his Chariot.  Wheels round the Walls of Troy. Comprizing a great Variety  of valuable and useful Maxims on Military Discipline,  Stratagem, Exploits in Civil Affairs, Politics, Virtue,  Resolution, Prudence, Oeconomy, and, in short, respecting  all the various Offices and Duties of Human Life; and  affording the most important, agreeable, and entertaining  Instruction, conveyed in the most lively Manner, to Mankind  in general. The Odyssey-Composed also in Twenty-Four  Books-And containing, among a Variety of other useful and  entertaining Particulars, a most magnificent and delightful  Description of the Voyages and Adventures of the wise and  venerable Ulysses, King of Ithaca, in Greece, and one of  the Princes who conducted the Siege of Troy, during his  Absence for Twenty Years from his Queen Penelope.  Exhibiting not only a just Picture of the Ancient Grecians,  but a beautiful System of Morality, Wisdom, Fortitude,  Perseverance, Moderation and Temperance, instructive to all  Degrees of Men, and filled with striking Images, Similies,  Examples, and Precepts of Civil and Domestic Life.  Including also that other excellent Piece of Homer,  entitled The battle of the frogs and mice -in Three Books-A  very beautiful, ingenious, satyrical, and interesting  Production, replete with Wit, Humour, and Entertainment,  allegorically describing the Valour and Intrepidity of  those sagacious Animals. Carefully translated from the  original Greek. In the Execution of this New and Improved  Edition, all former Editors and Commentators on Homer will  be carefully consulted and attended to, viz. Eustathius,  Dacies, Ogilby, Chapman, Dryden, Parnel, Warburton, &c.  particularly that hitherto most esteemed Translation by  Alex. Pope, Esq. Illustrated with large and valuable notes,  Critical, Historical, Philosophical, Allegorical, Poetical,  Scholastic, Political, Moral, Entertaining, Philological,  and Explanatory. Comprehending the most salutary  Reflections and useful Remarks, with many important  References to Ancient Mythology, Geography, and Universal  History, &c. &c. - To which will be carefully  added, The Arguments at large to every Book or Chapter, and  the most Authentic Memoirs of the Life of Homer; as also A  New Essay on Homer's Battdes, &c. and a Complete  Geographical Table of the Towns, &c. in Homer's  Catalogue of Greece. Being the most perfect and beautiful  Edition of Homer ever published, and calculated to  accommodate and please every Class of Readers. The whole  embellished with A most Superb Set of Grand Quarto  copper-plates, Designed and engraved by the most Capital  Artists: so that these Elegant Engravings will alone be  worth more than the Purchase-Money of the whole Work. The  whole revised, corrected, and improved by William Henry  Melmoth, Esq. Editor of the New and Beautiful Quarto  Edition of Telemachus,-The New Abridgment of the Roman  History, &c. &c. [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {printed for Alex. Hogg, at the King's Arms, No. 16,  Paternoster-Row; and sold by all other booksellers and  news-carriers, in town and country,},
      address = {London :},
      pages = {659,[5]p.,40 plates :},
      year = {1780},
      note = {Printed in two columns.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/515614},
}