This volume is the first English-language survey of Homeric studies to appear for more than a generation, and the first such work to attempt to cover all fields

The Cambridge Companion to Homer is a guide to the essential aspects of Homeric criticism and scholarship, including the reception of the poems in ancient and m

A study companion to Homer's "Odyssey" containing historical and mythological background; discussion of Homeric values and the plot, themes, and literary featur

Those who are able to read Homer in Greek have ample recourse to commentaries, but the vast majority who read the Iliad in translation have not been so well ser

A guide to the reader of Homer - to the form and the language of the poems and to their local and historical background. Presents, authoritatively, many importa