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A Commentary on Homer's Odyssey: Volume I: Introduction and Books I-VIII

by Alfred Heubeck, J. B. Hainsworth, Stephanie West

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This is the first instalment of a three-volume commentary in English, compiled by an international team of scholars and first published in Italian under the auspices of the Fondazione Lorenzo Valla. In this volume the commentary by West (Books I-IV) and Hainsworth (Books V-VIII) is preceded byan introduction which discusses previous research on the Odyssey, the nature of the poem and its relation to the Iliad, the epic dialect, and the transmission of the text. Book VI is a regular GCSE set text.… (more)
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I've had a Classics professor I admired who thought these 3 books were useless. I'll make my own mind up when I've read them. They supplement Stanford and sometimes win out over him by dint of their extra size. The bits I've read of De Jong's commentary to the odyssey have not impressed.
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This is the first instalment of a three-volume commentary in English, compiled by an international team of scholars and first published in Italian under the auspices of the Fondazione Lorenzo Valla. In this volume the commentary by West (Books I-IV) and Hainsworth (Books V-VIII) is preceded byan introduction which discusses previous research on the Odyssey, the nature of the poem and its relation to the Iliad, the epic dialect, and the transmission of the text. Book VI is a regular GCSE set text.

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