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; colonisation 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.
About the Series Read by more than 12 million students over
fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for
apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part
format-annotated text, contexts and criticism-helps students to
better understand, analyse and appreciate the literature, while
opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors.
Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions
provide all the resources students need.
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