A. Hoekstra

Studies in the Development of Greek Epic Diction

Homeric Modifications of Formulaic Prototypes

Studies in the Homeric Hymns Sdto Apollo to Aphrodite and to Demeter

Thesub-epic Stage of the Fromulaic Traidtion

Alfred Heubeck

John Bryan Hainsworth

Stephanie West

This is the first instalment of a three-volume commentary in English, compiled by an international team of scholars and first published in Italian under the auspices of the Fondazione Lorenzo Valla. In this volume the commentary by West (Books I-IV) and Hainsworth (Books V-VIII) is preceded byan introduction which discusses previous research on the Odyssey, the nature of the poem and its relation to the Iliad, the epic dialect, and the transmission of the text. Book VI is a regular GCSE set text.

A. Hoekstra

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