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In The Authoress of the Odyssey (1897) Samuel Butler developed a notably controversial intuition about the poem’s author. In his analyses, he concluded that the Iliad and the Odyssey cannot have been created by the same person: whilst the former was certainly written by the Greek male poet Homer, the latter should be regarded as a companion piece to the Iliad and was instead the work of a “young, headstrong, and unmarried” woman (as the title to his chapter VII phrases it) from Magna Graecia, more precisely Trapani, Sicily. This theory rested upon his assumption that female characters in the Odyssey are favourably portrayed whereas there is a relative disregard for male characters. Butler’s prose translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey became highly successful and are still consulted nowadays; however, his views on the authorship of Homer’s works were severely criticised back then. The purpose of this paper is to explore to what extent Butler’s theory impacted on his translation of the Odyssey by analysing his translation strategies; to this end, an approach combining corpus linguistics (Maci & Sala 2022), corpus stylistics (Simpson 2004, Mahlberg 2013) and translational stylistics (Boase-Beier 2014) will be adopted as the research design for this study. In The Authoress of the Odyssey (1897) Samuel Butler developed a notably controversial intuition about the poem’s author. In his analyses, he concluded that the Iliad and the Odyssey cannot have been created by the same person: whilst the former was certainly written by the Greek male poet Homer, the latter should be regarded as a companion piece to the Iliad and was instead the work of a “young, headstrong, and unmarried” woman (as the title to his chapter VII phrases it) from Magna Graecia, more precisely Trapani, Sicily. This theory rested upon his assumption that female characters in the Odyssey are favourably portrayed whereas there is a relative disregard for male characters. Butler’s prose translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey became highly successful and are still consulted nowadays; however, his views on the authorship of Homer’s works were severely criticised back then. The purpose of this paper is to explore to what extent Butler’s theory impacted on his translation of the Odyssey by analysing his translation strategies; to this end, an approach combining corpus linguistics (Maci & Sala 2022), corpus stylistics (Simpson 2004, Mahlberg 2013) and translational stylistics (Boase-Beier 2014) will be adopted as the research design for this study.
