This Norton Critical Edition includes:
- Emily Wilson's authoritative translation of Homer's masterpiece,
accompanied by her informative introduction, explanatory footnotes,
and book-by-book summaries.
- Four maps, created especially for this translation.
- Contextual materials including sources and analogues by Homer, Sappho,
Pindar, and others. Also included are carefully chosen passages from
(mainly) ancient texts that provide insight into The Odyssey and its
reception by Plato, Aristotle, Ovid, Pseudo-Longinus, Lucian,
Apollodorus, Heraclitus, Porphyry, Proclus, Hyginus, Dante Alighieri,
Alfred Lord Tennyson, C. P. Cavafy, Derek Walcott, and Margaret
Atwood.
- Nine critical essays addressing key topics--composition;
representation of religion and the gods; class and slavery; gender;
colonization and the meaning of home; trickery, intelligence, and
lying; and more-- essential to the study of The Odyssey. Essays by
Robert Fowler, Laurel Fulkerson, Barbara Graziosi, Laura M. Slatkin,
Sheila Murnaghan, Patrice Rankine, Helene P. Foley, Egbert J. Bakker,
and Lillian Eileen Doherty are included.
- A glossary and a list of suggested further readings.
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