Besides being a playwright, who among the following has translated Homer? 

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  1. Ben Johnson
  2. Thomas Dekker
  3. Thomas Heywood
  4. George Chapman

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Option 4 : George Chapman
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The correct answer is "George Chapman".

Key Points

  • George Chapman was born in the year 1559 in London.
  • He was an English dramatist, translator and poet.
  • Chapman is known for his translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and the Homeric Batrachomyomachia.
  • Chapman also translated:
  1. The Homeric Hymns
  2. The Georgics of Virgil 
  3. The Works of Hesiod
  4.  The Hero and Leander of Musaeus 
  5. The Fifth Satire of Juvenal.

Therefore, the correct answer is option 4.

Additional Information

  • Homer was a Greek poet, known as the author of The Iliad and The Odyssey.
  • These two epic poems are considered foundational works of ancient Greek literature.      
  • Ben Jonson is among the best-known writers and theorists of English Renaissance literature.  A prolific dramatist and a man of letters highly learned in the classics, he profoundly influenced the Augustan age through his emphasis on the precepts of Horace, Aristotle, and other classical Greek and Latin thinkers.  
  • Thomas Dekker was an English Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer.
  • Thomas Heywood was an English playwright, actor, and author. He is best known for his masterpiece A Woman Killed with Kindness, a domestic tragedy, which was first performed in 1603 at the Rose Theatre by the Worcester's Men company.
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