Samuel Butcher (classicist)

Samuel Butcher
Portrait of Samuel Butcher, 1911
Born
Samuel Henry Butcher

(1850-04-16)16 April 1850
Dublin, Ireland
Died29 December 1910(1910-12-29) (aged 60)
London, England
Occupations
  • Writer
  • scholar

Samuel Henry Butcher DCL LLD FRSE FBA (/ˈbʊtʃər/; 16 April 1850 – 29 December 1910) was an Anglo-Irish writer and classical scholar. He was best known for his edition of Homer's Odyssey alongside fellow writer Andrew Lang, which they co-authored in 1879. His edition transformed The Odyssey into prose, similar to Samuel Butler's version in 1900. Although Butler's version is more popular today, Butcher and Lang's version was popular in its time. In addition to being a writer, he was a Professor of Greek at the University of Edinburgh and a politician.

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