Table of Contents

PrefaceSuzanne Saïd:
Note on TranslationsRuth Webb:
1: From 'Homer' to the Homeric Poems
2: The Art of Homer: Between Tradition and Innovation
3: Homer and History
4: The Odyssey: narrations, narrators, and poets
5: The Adventures of Telemachus
6: Odysseus' Travels
7: Odysseus on Ithaca
8: The Human World
9: Women in the Odyssey
10: The World of the Gods
11: The Ideology of the Odyssey
Conclusion
Bibliography

About the Author

Suzanne Saïd is Professor of Classics at Columbia University, New York.

Reviews

Saïd carefully guides the reader between the classic's history and fiction, demonstrating its astonishing complexity and unity ... Highly recommended.
*R. Cormier, CHOICE*