Editorial Review: A substantial introduction covers many of the questions that lie behind the poem, including a thorough summary of Homeric grammar; the text is elucidated with full annotations, indexes and bibliography.
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Rating: - Great text; so-so edition
This and its companion volume are *the* student texts with commentaries that one would want to use to read the complete Odyssey at a beginning or intermediate level. The introduction is very thorough and provides a good summary of Homeric scholarship up to the time when it was written (1950s), comments on some of the distinctive features of Homeric grammar and syntax, and gives helpful overviews of words for parts of ships and houses that make it easier to understand what's going on in certain parts ... Read More
