The Authoress of the Odyssey

Butler was a product, or perhaps the term should be "user," of his classical education. His provocative novels bulge with classical references, his essays confront the Church, the intellectual establishment, and the Darwinians in full Latin regalia, and whether or not one regards him as a true gentlemanly Victorian eccentric or a hopeless crank, one must admit he knew his Homer. Near the end of his life, he wrote what was either a groundbreaking work of reasoned logic or one of the purest o...