The Odyssey (Norton Critical Editions): A Norton Critical Edition: 0

The Odyssey (Norton Critical Editions): A Norton Critical Edition: 0

by Emily Wilson (Author), Homer Homer (Author)

Synopsis

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, 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.

$17.53

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 512
Edition: Critical edition
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 15 Jun 2020

ISBN 10: 0393655067
ISBN 13: 9780393655063