SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING

I. Texts and Commentaries

Homeri Opera. Ed. by T. W. Allen. 2d ed., Vols. III and IV. Oxford Classical Texts. London and New York, 1917.

The Odyssey. Ed. with Introduction, Commentary and Indexes by W. B. Stanford. 2d ed., 2 vols. London and New York, reprinted with alterations and additions, 1967.

A Commentary on Homer’s Odyssey. Vol. I: Books I–VIII, A. Heubeck, S. West, J. B. Hainsworth. Vol. II: Books IX–XVI, A. Heubeck, A. Hoekstra. Vol. III: Books XVII–XXIV, J. Russo, M. Fernández-Galiano, A. Heubeck. New York and Oxford, 1988–92.

Homer, Odyssey: Books XIX and XX. Ed. R. B. Rutherford. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Cambridge, England, 1992.

Homer, Odyssey: Books VI–VIII. Ed. A. F. Garvie. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Cambridge, England, 1994.

Homer, The Odyssey. Ed. with English translation by A. T. Murray, revised by George E. Dimock. 2 vols. The Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Mass., and London, 1995.

II. Critical Works

Ahl, Frederick, and Hanna M. Roisman. The Odyssey Re-Formed. Ithaca, 1996.

Arnold, Matthew. “On Translating Homer.” In On the Classical Tradition, ed. R. H. Super. Ann Arbor and London, 1960.

Atchity, Kenneth, ed. Critical Essays on Homer. Boston, 1987.

Auerbach, Erich. Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature. Trans. Willard Trask. Chapter 1, “Odysseus’ Scar.” Princeton, 1953.

Austin, Norman. Archery at the Dark of the Moon: Poetic Problems in Homer’s Odyssey. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1975.

Bakker, Egbert, and Ahuvia Kahane, eds. Written Voices, Spoken Signs: Tradition, Performance, and the Epic Text. Cambridge, Mass., 2000.

Beissinger, Margaret, Jane Tylus, and Susanne Wofford, eds. Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: The Poetics of Community. Berkeley, 1999.

Benardete, Seth. The Bow and the Lyre: A Platonic Reading of the Odyssey. New York and London, 1997.

Beye, Charles R. The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Epic Tradition. New York and London, 1966.

Bloom, Harold, ed. Homer’s Odyssey. New York, 1996.

Bremer, J. M., I. J. F. de Jong, and J. Kalff, eds. Homer: Beyond Oral Poetry. Recent Trends in Homeric Interpretation. Amsterdam, 1987.

Buitron, Diana, and Beth Cohen, eds. The Odyssey and Ancient Art: An Epic in Word and Image. The Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 1992.

Camps, W. A. An Introduction to Homer. Oxford, 1980.

Carpenter, Rhys. Folk Tale, Fiction, and Saga in the Homeric Epics. Berkeley, 1946.

Carter, Jane B., and Sarah P. Morris, eds. The Ages of Homer: A Tribute to Emily Townsend Vermeule. Austin, 1995.

Chadwick, John. The Mycenaean World. London and New York, 1976.

Clarke, Howard. Homer’s Readers: A Historical Introduction to the Iliad and the Odyssey. Newark, Del., 1981.

Clay, Jenny Strauss. The Wrath of Athena: Gods and Men in the Odyssey. Princeton, 1983.

Cohen, Beth, ed. The Distaff Side: Representing the Female in Homer’s Odyssey. New York and London, 1995.

Cook, Erwin F. The “Odyssey” in Athens: Myths of Cultural Origins. Ithaca and London, 1996.

Crotty, Kevin. The Poetics of Supplication: Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. Ithaca and London, 1994.

Dawe, R. D. The Odyssey: Translation and Analysis. Sussex, 1993.

Dimock, George E. The Unity of the Odyssey. Amherst, 1989.

Edwards, Mark W. Homer: Poet of the Iliad. Baltimore and London, 1987.

Felson-Rubin, Nancy. Regarding Penelope: From Character to Poetics. Princeton, 1994.

Fenik, Bernard. Studies in the Odyssey. Hermes Einzelschrift 30. Wiesbaden, 1974.

Ferrucci, Franco. The Poetics of Disguise: The Autobiography of the Work in Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare. Trans. A. Dunnigan. Ithaca, 1980.

Finley, John H., Jr. Homer’s Odyssey. Cambridge, Mass., and London, 1978.

Finley, Sir Moses. The World of Odysseus. 2d rev. ed. Harmondsworth, 1979.

Finnegan, Ruth. Oral Poetry: Its Nature, Significance, and Social Context. Cambridge, England, 1977.

Ford, Andrew. Homer: The Poetry of the Past. Ithaca and London, 1992.

Frame, Douglas. The Myth of Return in Early Greek Epic. New Haven, 1978.

Greene, Thomas M. The Descent from Heaven: A Study in Epic Continuity. Chapter 4, “Form and Craft in the Odyssey.” New Haven, 1963.

Griffin, Jasper. Homer on Life and Death. Oxford, 1980.

__. Homer: The Odyssey. Landmarks of World Literature. Cambridge, England, and New York, 1987.

Guthrie, W. K. C. The Greeks and Their Gods. London, 1949; repr. Boston, 1950.

Hexter, Ralph. A Guide to the Odyssey: A Commentary on the English Translation of Robert Fitzgerald. New York, 1993.

Jenkyns, Richard. Classical Epic: Homer and Virgil. Bristol Classical World series. London, 1992.

Jones, Peter V. Homer’s Odyssey: A Companion to the Translation of Richmond Lattimore. Carbondale and Bristol, 1988.

Katz, Marylin A. Penelope’s Renown: Meaning and Indeterminacy in the Odyssey. Princeton, 1991.

Kirk, G. S. The Songs of Homer. Cambridge, England, 1962.

Lamberton, Robert. Homer the Theologian: Neoplatonist Allegorical Reading and the Growth of the Epic Tradition. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1986.

__, and J. J. Keaney, eds. Homer’s Ancient Readers: The Hermeneutics of Greek Epic’s Earliest Exegetes. Princeton, 1992.

Lloyd-Jones, Sir Hugh. The Justice of Zeus. 2d ed. Sather Classical Lectures, Vol. 41. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1983.

Lord, Albert. The Singer of Tales. Cambridge, Mass., 1960.

Louden, Bruce. The Odyssey: Structure, Narration, and Meaning. Baltimore and London, 1999.

Martin, Richard. The Language of Heroes: Speech and Performance in the Iliad. Ithaca, 1989.

McAuslan, Ian, and Peter Walcot, eds. Homer. Oxford and New York, 1998.

Morris, Ian, and Barry Powell, eds. A New Companion to Homer. Leiden and New York, 1997.

Moulton, Carroll. Similes in the Homeric Poems. Göttingen, 1977.

Mueller, Martin, The Iliad. Unwin Critical Library, ed. Claude Rawson. London, 1984.

Murnaghan, Sheila. Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey. Princeton, 1987.

Myrsiades, Kostas, ed. Approaches to Teaching Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. New York, 1987.

Nagy, Gregory. The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry. Baltimore and London, 1979.

Olson, S. Douglas. Blood and Iron: Stories and Storytelling in Homer’s Odyssey. Leiden, New York, Köln, 1995.

Page, Sir Denys. Folktales in Homer’s Odyssey. Cambridge, Mass., 1973.

__. The Homeric Odyssey. Oxford, 1955.

Parry, Adam M. Foreword by Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones. The Language of Achilles and Other Papers. Oxford, 1989.

Parry, Milman. The Making of Homeric Verse: The Collected Papers of Milman Parry. Ed. Adam Parry. Oxford, 1971.

Peradotto, John. Man in the Middle Voice: Name and Narration in the Odyssey. Martin Classical Lectures, New Series, Vol. 1. Princeton, 1990.

Pucci, Pietro. Odysseus Polutropos: Intertextual Readings in the Odyssey and the Iliad. 2d ed. Ithaca, 1995.

Rubens, Beaty, and Oliver Taplin. An Odyssey Round Odysseus: The Man and His Story Traced Through Time and Place. London, 1989.

Rubino, Carl A., and Cynthia W. Shelmerdine, eds. Approaches to Homer. Austin, 1983.

Schein, Seth L., ed. Reading the Odyssey: Selected Interpretive Essays. Princeton, 1995.

Scully, Stephen. Homer and the Sacred City. Ithaca and London, 1990.

Segal, Charles. Singers, Heroes, and Gods in the Odyssey. Ithaca, 1994.

Shive, David M. Naming Achilles. New York and Oxford, 1987.

Stanford, W. B. The Ulysses Theme: A Study in the Adaptability of a Traditional Hero. Oxford, 1983.

Steiner, George, and Robert Fagles, eds. Homer: A Collection of Critical Essays. Twentieth Century Views, ed. Maynard Mack. Englewood Cliffs, 1962.

__, ed., with Aminadov Dykman. Homer in English. Penguin Poets in Translation, ed. Christopher Ricks. Harmondsworth, 1996.

Suzuki, Mihoko. Metamorphoses of Helen: Authority, Difference, and the Epic. Chapter 2, “The Odyssey.” Ithaca and London, 1989.

Taylor, Charles H., Jr., ed. Essays on the Odyssey: Selected Modern Criticism. Indianapolis, 1963.

Thalmann, William G. The Odyssey: An Epic of Return. Twayne Publishers, New York, 1992.

__. The Swineherd and the Bow: Representations of Class in the Odyssey. Ithaca, N.Y., 1998.

Thornton, Agathe. People and Themes in Homer’s Odyssey. London, 1970.

Tracy, Stephen V. The Story of the Odyssey. Princeton, 1990.

__. Greece in the Bronze Age. Chicago and London, 1964.

Vermeule, Emily. Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry. Sather Classical Lectures, Vol. 46. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1979.

Vivante, Paolo. Homer. Hermes Books, ed. John Herington. New Haven and London, 1985.

Wace, Alan J. B., and Frank Stubbings. A Companion to Homer. London, 1962.

Wender, Dorothea. The Last Scenes of the Odyssey. Mnemosyne Supplement 52. Leiden, 1978.

Whitman, Cedric H. Homer and the Heroic Tradition. Chapter 12, “The Odyssey and Change.” Cambridge, Mass., and London, 1958.

Wood, Robert. An Essay on the Original Genius and Writings of Homer. London, 1769; rep. Philadelphia, 1976.

Woodhouse, W. J. The Composition of Homer’s Odyssey. Oxford, 1930.