Samuel Butler’s translation of *The Odyssey* is not merely a linguistic exercise but a vehicle for a radical reinterpretation of Homeric scholarship. His claim that the epic was written by a young Sicilian woman—embedded in the text as Nausicaa—challenges centuries of assumptions about authorship, gender, and the oral tradition. Butler’s argument hinges on geographical and structural analysis, asserting that the poem’s settings map onto Sicily and that its composition predates 1000 B.C. This fli...