A Commentary on Homer's Odyssey: Volume I: Introduction and Books I-VIII
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (807 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0198147473 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 408 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Strongly recommended for public, college, and university collections."--Choice"This Oxford Commentary representsthe new catholicism in Homeric studies.They have given us a new guidebook to the Odyssey marked by good sense and the exactitude for which British scholarship is renowned.Stocked with information on the most disparate topics and with copious citations of modern scholarship, this Commentary will be a valuable aid for readers of the Odyssey for years to come."--Arion"A tremendously important text, and will certainly b
Stephanie West is at Hertford College, Oxford. Alfred Heubeck is at University of Erlangen-Nurnberg.
This first book of a three-volume commentary compiled by an international team of scholars includes an introduction discussing previous research on the Odyssey, its relation to the Iliad, the epic dialect, and the transmission of the text.
Extremely valuable, outrageously expensive This book, the first in a series of three which are an English version of an extensive Italian edition of the Odyssey published in the 1980s, are invaluable for any advanced study of the Greek text. Five stars for the book, which is a contribution to our culture; one star for the pricing, which is a crime against it. It's incomprehensible to me how such an institution as OUP could decide