Facing censorship and being confined to the fringes of the political debate of his time, Thomas Hobbes turned his attention to translating Homerâ¤s Iliad and the Odyssey from Greek into English. Many have not considered enough the usefulness of these translations. In this book, Andrea Catanzaro analyses the political value of Hobbes⤠translations of Homerâ¤s works and exposes the existence of a link between the translations and the previous works of the Malmesbury philosopher. In doing so, he asks: ⤢ What new information concerning Hobbes' political and philosophical thought can be rendered from mere translation? ⤢ What new offerings can a man in his eighties at the time offer, having widely explained his political ideas in numerous famous essays and treatises? ⤢ What new elements can be deduced in a text that was well-known in England and where there were better versions than the ones produced by Hobbes? Andrea Catanzaroâ¤s commentary and theoretical interpretation offers an incentive to study Hobbes lesser known works in the wider development of Western political philosophy and the history of political thought.