The Odyssey

Homer

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Brann, Eva. Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad. Philadelphia: Paul Dry Books, 2002.

Burkert, Walter. Greek Religion. Translated by John Raffan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, reprint edition 2006.

Clarke, Howard W. The Art of the Odyssey. London: Bristol Classical Press, new edition 1994.

Clay, Jenny Strauss. The Wrath of Athena: Gods and Men in the Odyssey. Lanham, MD: Littlefield Adams, 1996.

Finley, M. I. The World of Odysseus. New York: New York Review Books, reprint edition 2002.

Griffin, Jasper. Homer: The Odyssey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, reprint edition 2003.

Kirk, G. S. The Songs of Homer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, new edition 2004.

Knox, Bernard. “Introduction.” In Homer, the Odyssey, trans. Robert Fagles. New York: Penguin Books, 1996.

Louden, Bruce. The Odyssey: Structure, Narration, and Meaning. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Nagy, Gregory. The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, revised edition 1998.

Page, Denys. The Homeric Odyssey. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. 1982.

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