HOMER'S ILIAD

CONSTRUED LITERALLY & WORD FOR WORD

BY REV. DR. GILES

COMMENT

Giles’s prose offers a Greek-English text in which every Greek word or phrase is followed immediately by a straightforward English translation, so that each paragraph is a mixture of Homer’s text and the English equivalent. There is no attempt to maintain any uninterrupted flow of Greek or English. Each paragraph begins with a number indicating the appropriate line in Homer’s text. There is no critical apparatus or commentary.

The Giles translation is clearly aimed at assisting students who wish to begin reading Homer’s text in Greek. And it is admirably suited to that purpose, although there are interlinear translations which provide more assistance with the Greek syntax.

For a sample of Giles’s translation, use the following link (you have to click on the download button in order to open the text): Giles Iliad.

[List of Published English Translations of Homer]