The Homeric Library: Translations, Editions, Commentaries

Title page. George Chapman (1559?–1634). The Whole Works of Homer. . . . London:
Printed for Nathaniell Butter, [1616]. Rare Books Collection. Special Collections Research Center, The University of Chicago Library.

Speakers will present approaches to Homer’s texts highlighting the research potential of the University of Chicago Library’s Homer collection, which stretches from the 15th century to the 21st. This colloquium is presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Homer in Print: The Transmission and Reception of Homer’s Texts” at the Special Collections Research Center, and the publication of “Homer in Print: The Bibliotheca Homerica Langiana at the University of Chicago Library (Chicago: University of Chicago Library, 2013).

9:30 – 10:15 a.m.
Guided Tour of the Exhibition

10:30 – noon
Glenn Most, University of Chicago and Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
“How Many Homers?”

Sophie Rabau, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3
“Exploring the Bibliotheca Homerica Langiana: On the Trail of a Spurious Line”

1:30 – 4 p.m.
David Wray, University of Chicago
“Quarreling over Homer in France and England, 1711-1715”

Larry F. Norman, University of Chicago
“On Not Knowing Homer: Translation and its Discontents”

Tiphaine Samoyault, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3
“Homerinfant: On Translations and Retellings of the Odyssey for Children”

This colloquium is free and open to the public.