criticising its simplicity of plot and characterisation. There is little agreement. According to critics the play is derived entirely from the Homeric episode or mostly from the Homeric episode, is an interrogator of Homeric and tragic portrayals, or "a rival version of a Homeric episode with new contemporary implications." Translations Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1819 (published 1824) – verse (full text at Google Books or ) Edward P. Coleridge, 1891 – prose (full text from MIT Classics) Arthur S. Way, 1912 – verse J. T. Sheppard, 1923 – verse William Arrowsmith, 1956 - verse Roger Lancelyn Green, 1957 – verse David Kovacs, 1994 – prose (full text on Tufts Perseus) Heather McHugh and David Konstan, 2001 – verse George Theodoridis, 2008 – prose (full text at Bacchicstage Wordpress) Patrick O'Sullivan and Christopher Collard, 2013 (full text on Academia.edu) See also Ancient Greek literature Ancient Greek religion Classical Greece Dionysia Dionysian Mysteries Music of ancient Greece Theatre of ancient Greece References Plays by Euripides Odysseus Sicilian characters in Greek mythology Satyr plays Plays set in ancient Greece Plays set in Sicily Works based on the Odyssey Plays based on works by Homer Silenus