Thomas Hobbes

This represents the first modern scholarly edition of Thomas Hobbes's translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. They are part of the Clarendon Press's growing Thomas Hobbes series that includes a two-volume set of Hobbes's correspondence and a scholarly edition of De Cive. Eric Nelson's introduction and his annotations to Hobbes's Iliad and Odyssey make these volumes essential reading for Hobbes scholars. Hobbes produced his translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey when he was in his eighties; indeed, they represent his last published works, taken down over the course of four years by a secretary, because Hobbes's hands shook so badly from Parkinson's disease. Why did Hobbes choose to spend his later years in an enterprise which might have, at first glance, seemed more appropriate to his youth? Nelson gives us a persuasive answer to this question in his introduction, where he argues that Hobbes's Homer is an extension of his argument in Leviathan by other, and less controversial, means

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