A Commentary on Homer's Odyssey: Volume II: Books IX-XVI (Commentary on Homer's Odyssey) (Clarendon Paperbacks)

This second volume of a massive three-volume commentary compiled by an international team of scholars includes special discussions of diction in the Odyssey and the tradition of epic diction in general. These are the first two of a three-volume commentary on the Odyssey, compiled by an international team of scholars, making the most up-to-date and authoritative scholarship available in paperback. Questions of text, dialect, the poems relation to the Iliad, and the epic tradition in general are discussed by acknowledged experts in the field. This is the second instalment of a three-volume presentation in English of a commentary on Homer's "Odyssey", compiled by an international team of scholars. Introductions pay special attention to diction in the "Odyssey", and the tradition of epic diction in general.

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.

This three volume commentary also includes an introduction discussing previous research on the Odyssey, its relation to the Iliad, the epic dialect, and the transmission of the text In Books ix-xii Odysseus tells the Phaeacians of his adventures in the course of the wanderings which brought him from Troy to Scheria. Vol. 2. Books ix-xvi / Alfred Heubeck, Arie Hoekstra. 1989 (1990[printing]).