A Commentary on Homer's Odyssey Volume II Books IX-XVI [Paperback]

This second volume of a massive three-volume commentary compiled by an international team of scholars includes special discussions of diction in theOdysseyand the tradition of epic diction in general.

A major new commentary. --Classical World

This is a commentary for everyone's shelf....To offer a new commentary on such a fundamental work of European literature is a major challenge, which the linguistic and literary analysis of this work meets very well. --Choice

Praise for the Italian edition: Eminently clear and controlled...based on up-to-date linguistic, papyrological, and formulaic scholarship. --Journal of Hellenic Studies

Here we have a work the richness, independence, and judiciousness of which cannot be sufficiently admired....Reason to rejoice and be grateful. --Classical Review