Synopses & Reviews
This second volume of a massive three-volume commentary compiled by an international team of scholars includes special discussions of diction in the Odyssey and the tradition of epic diction in general.
Review
"A major new commentary."--
Classical World"This is a commentary for everyone's shelf....To offer a new commentary on such a fundamental work of European literature is a major challenge, which the linguistic and literary analysis of this work meets very well."--Choice
Praise for the Italian edition: "Eminently clear and controlled...based on up-to-date linguistic, papyrological, and formulaic scholarship."--Journal of Hellenic Studies
"Here we have a work the richness, independence, and judiciousness of which cannot be sufficiently admired....Reason to rejoice and be grateful."--Classical Review