CLG 307: Homer's Odyssey
Reviews of Recent Books on the Odyssey
The Following links will take you to substantive reviews of recent books on the Odyssey from the Bryn Mawr Classical Review. They are listed by Author(s) of book. Reviewers are sometimes listed parenthetically at the end
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Ahl/Roisman, The Odyssey Re-Formed (recensio prima)
Ahl/Roisman, The Odyssey Re-Formed (recensio secunda)
Cook, The Odyssey in Athens (A. Ford)
Lawrence, T.E.(trans.), The Odyssey of Homer: (William C. Scott)
Segal, Singers, Heroes, and Gods in the Odyssey
Cohen, ed., The Distaff Side
Rutherford, R.B. Homer: Odyssey XIX and XX, Cambridge, CUP,
Katz, M.A., Penelope's Renown: (S. Douglas Olson)
Kahane, Interpretation of Order
Katz, M.A., Penelope's Renown: (Charles Rowan Beye)
Russo et all, Comm. on Odyssey 17-24
Foley, J.M., Traditional Oral Epic: (William C. Scott)
Doherty, Siren Songs
Lowenstam, Scepter and Spear
Peradotto, J., Man in the Middle Voice: (Sheila Murnaghan)
Peradotto, J., Man in the Middle Voice: (S. Douglas Olson)
Latacz, Homer, His At and His World
McDonald, Christianizing Homer
On epic: Quint and Wofford
Olson, Blood and Iron
Andrew Ford. Homer: The Poetry of the Past. Ithaca:
Reece, Steve : The Stranger's Welcome: Oral Theory and the Aesthetics of
Murray, O. (ed.), Sympotica: (Richard Hamilton)
Powell, B.B., Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet: (Mabel L. Lang)
Pratt, Lying and Poetry
de Jong/Sullivan, Modern Critical Theory
Seaford, Reciprocity and Ritual
Robert Lamberton and John J. Keaney (edd.). Homer's Ancient Readers
Essays on Homeric Epic
ALSO SEEN: Beye, Ancient Epic Poetry
Yarnall, Transformations of Circe
Andersen/Dickie, edd., Homer's World
Parks, Ward, Verbal Dueling in Heroic Narrative (William C. Scott)
Rose, Peter W., Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth:
J.B. Hainsworth. The Idea of Epic.
Oberhelman ed., Epic and Epoch
Dee, Epithetic Phrases for the Homeric Gods
Foley, J.M., Immanent Art: From Structure to Meaning in Traditional Oral Epic (R. Hamilton)
Kahane, Interpretation of Order (II)