title: On the Study of Celtic Literature and on Translating Homer
author: Mathew Arnold
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zlib_text: Politics through the Iliad and 
  the Odyssey
  Facing censorship and being confined to the fringes of the political 
   debate of his time, Thomas Hobbes turned his attention to translating 
  Homer’s Iliad and the Odyssey from Greek into English. Many have not 
  considered enough the usefulness of these translations. In this book, 
   Andrea Catanzaro analyses the political value of Hobbes’ translations 
  of Homer’s works and exposes the existence of a link between the trans-
  lations and the previous works of the Malmesbury philosopher. In doing 
  so, he asks:
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  What new information concerning Hobbes’ political and philosoph-
  ical thought can be rendered from mere translation?
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  What new offerings can a man in his eighties at the time offer, having 
  widely explained his political ideas in numerous famous essays and 
  treatises?
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  What new elements can be deduced in a text that was well-known 
  in England and where there were better versions than the ones pro-
  duced by Hobbes?
  Andrea Catanzaro’s 