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Homer: Odyssey I and II

by P. V. Jones

This edition is produced with particular concern for the student coming to Homer for the first time. The text is given with facing translation and commentary, but the usual apparatus criticus at the bottom of each page is replaced by brief notes on Homeric language. This makes the text considerably more accessible for those without Homeric Greek. These notes are cross-referenced to an introduction on Homeric language for those meeting it for the first time. Textual matters are discussed in the commentary itself, though this is, as is usual in the series, mainly concerned with the meaning of the epic. 232p, Greek text with facing translation, commentary and notes.(Aris and Phillips 1991, reprinted 2011)

Table of contents

Preface
Introduction:
I: Some definitions and assumptions
II: The temporal organisation of the poem
III: The conditions of oral performance
IV: Homer and his world
V: Homer and history
VI: A scene-by-scene analysis of Books I & II of the Odyssey
VII: Basic information needed for scanning the Homeric hexameter
VIII: The text

Basic Homeric Grammar

Parallel Greek Text and English Translation of the Odyssey I & II
Commentary

Author Bibliographic

Professor Peter Jones is Senior lecturer in Classics at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the political philosophy department. He has written previous commentary on Homer and is well known as a battler for the place of classics in the modern curriculum.

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