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The Claudyssey: All 12,107 Lines of Homer's Odyssey Translated by Claude Fable 5, Keyed One-to-One to the Greek
The Claudyssey is a complete English Odyssey translated by Claude Fable 5 and edited/produced by Chris Duffy, with every one of its 12,107 English lines mapped one-to-one onto its Greek source line. It uses a loose five-to-six-beat unrhymed measure and preserves Homer's repeated epithets and whole-line refrains verbatim rather than varying them for English taste, and ships 24 books, 1,260 annotations, and 434 index entries. The Greek base text is A. T. Murray's public-domain 1919 Loeb, digitized by the Perseus Digital Library. The HN thread drew 41 points and 44 comments, with the line-for-line constraint — not the fluency — being what commenters found defensible.
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