Reading the Odyssey: Selected Interpretive Essays

This wide-ranging collection makes available to specialists and nonspecialists alike important critical work on the Odyssey produced during the last half century. The ten essays address five major concerns: the poem’s programmatic representation of social and religious institutions and values; its transformation of folktales and traditional stories into epic adventures; its representation of gender roles and, in particular, of Penelope; its narrative strategies and form; and its relation to the Iliad, especially to that epic’s distinctive conception of heroism.

Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 1996
Book Condition: Very good softcover with some minor bumping to top right corner and minor edge wear to covers. Some minor spotting to top edge. A clean and unmarked copy internally.