A Commentary on Homer's Odyssey: Volume II: Books IX-XVI

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A Commentary on Homer's Odyssey: Volume II: Books IX-XVIIn the second volume, the commentaries by Heubeck (Books IX XII) and Hoekstra (Books XIII XVI) are both preceded by introductions, with Hoekstra paying special attention to diction in the Odyssey and the tradition of epic diction in general. The introductions and commentary have been thoroughly revised and adapted to the text of T. W. Allen in the Oxford Classical Text series. Print on Demand title (2 weeks to supply)

Light wear to front cover and top of spine

Euripides' sources

For each play the fragmentary texts are presented as conveniently and succinctly as possible

and mine had poppies as red as fire

ήταν άγνωστοι

The title for this book comes from a Greek legend recounting the creation of Greece and its people: the rock is the hard

the first part of the only surviving tragic trilogy—the foundational status of Aeschylus’ monumental Agamemnon cannot be over-estimated

How to Get Over a Breakup presents an unabashedly modern prose translation of Ovid’s lighthearted and provocative work

a Greek Stoic and freed slave

The translation of this new edition seeks to be faithful to that characteristic Sallustian style and the commentary aims to be useful not only to specialists

a historian (third in the triad of great Classical historians

Anderson in his introduction to this textbook

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