A Commentary on Homer’s Odyssey: Volume III: Books XVII-XXIV 3

this Is The Third And Final Volume Of A Presentation In English Of A Commentary On Homer's odyssey Compiled By An International Team Of Scholars And Published In Italian Under The Auspices Of Fondazione Lorenzo Valla. In This Volume Each Section Of Commentary Is Preceded By Introductions Dealing With The Books In Question. For This English Version The Introduction And Commentary Have Been Thoroughly Revised And Adapted To The Text Of T.w. Allen In The Oxford Classical Texts Series. This is the third and final volume of a presentation in English of a commentary on Homer's __Odyssey__ compiled by an international team of scholars and published in Italian under the auspices of Fondazione Lorenzo Valla. In this volume each section of commentary is preceded by introductions dealing with the books in question. For this English version the introduction and commentary have been thoroughly revised and adapted to the text of T.W. Allen in the Oxford Classical Texts series. 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 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