Q: Iliad and Odyssey were translated into English by:
a) Jonathan Swift
b) John Dryden
c) Dr Johnson
d) A Pope
Correct answer: d) A Pope
MCQs on English Literature
Translation of Iliad and Odyssey
Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744). He translated both the Iliad and the Odyssey into heroic couplets. Pope uses the Roman names of the Olympian Gods. The two oldest surviving examples of Greek literature are the "Iliad and the Odyssey", epic poems that describe the Trojan war, a conflict between the Greeks and the city of Troy that epics say, it was fought almost 1200 years before the common era.
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