Course Outline of the Odyssey
Topics
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Important Web Sites
Perseus Project Home Page (click
on "Starting Points" in the list at top)
Familiarize yourself right
away with this very useful site,
by searching for "Homer","Iliad",
"Odyssey", or another relevant topic.
(Click here
to see the results of a Search for the topic "Odyssey"
in Perseus)
Perseus
- complete Odyssey text, internal links
Homer:
Homer Page -
Texts: Iliad & Odyssey linked
with Perseus footnotes online -
General Background: Homer - Iliad - Odyssey
-
The Homeric World - Oral Tradition - Miscellaneous -
Literary Criticism - Images - Allusions,
Influences, Variations.
The Odyssey Page
(Clarkson: source page leading to...)
The World
of Homer's Odyssey: Bronze Age Greece (Images)
Mycenae - Pylos - Tiryns - Troy
Odyssey: Links
to images
Odysseus talking to Elpenor -
Odysseus consulting the shade of Tiresius
Odysseus and the sirens
- Penelope and Telemachus
The Nurse washing
Odysseus' feet - Odysseus slaying the suitors.
Odyssey:
Introduction to the Odyssey - Who’s Who in the Odyssey
- Scenes of Action
Odyssey:
Schematic Outline (Buffalo)
Odyssey
Major & Minor Characters - Plot Summary -
Central Themes
Odyssey
Study Guide, Book by Book, with internal links
to Perseus. (Temple)
Chronology for the Odyssey.
Odyssey
Page links, to....
Virtual Odyssey - Odysseus, the hero - Travels of Odysseus
(slide series: Maps) -
Odyssey Review Questions - People and Places of the Odyssey.
Odyssey: Quiz
Odyssey: Review Questions
Odyssey Home Page:
(secondary school level)
Chapter Summaries - Themes - Characters -
Geography - Homer's Life - Links to
other Sites
Odyssey
Links to Images
of the Odyssey
Homer and the Odyssey
- Brief Essay.
Translations:
Odyssey: Comparative
Translations - Summaries - Criticism -
Miscellaneous Notes & Links to other Web Sites.
pronunciation-guide
[RealAud]
[WMP]
reconstruction of
Troy
pix-German
Panorama
(scroll down, click on photos)
Troy
- many photos - diagrams
Samuel
Butler's Odyssey translation
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Odyssey: Bibliography
Bloom, Harold , Homer's Odyssey: Edited and with an Introduction
(NY, Chelsea House 1988)
Crane, Gregory , Calypso: Backgrounds and Conventions of the Odyssey
(Frankfurt, Athenaeum 1988)
Griffin, Jasper, Homer: The Odyssey Cambridge UP 1987
Heubeck, Alfred, J.B. Hainsworth, et al. A Commentary on Homer's Odyssey.
3 Vols. (Oxford 1988) PA4167.H4813
Jones, Peter V. Homer's Odyssey : a companion to the translation
of Richmond Lattimore (Southern Illinois UP
c1988)
PA4167 .J66 1988
Murnaghan, Sheila, Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey
(Princeton UP 1987)
Peradotto, John , Man in the Middle Voice: Name and Narration in the Odyssey
(Princeton UP 1990)
Tracy, Stephen V. ,The Story of the Odyssey Princeton UP 1990
Stanford, William Bedell. Homer's Odyssey. 2 Vols. (Macmillan)
Thalmann, William G., The Odyssey : an epic of return.
(NY, Twayne Publishers 1992) PA4167.T45
Tracy, Stephen V., The story of the Odyssey (Princeton UP c1990). PA4167
.T7 1990
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Monographs:
Austin, Norman. Archery at the dark of the moon:
poetic problems in Homer's Odyssey .
(University of California 1975) PA4167 .A9
Bloom, Harold. Homer: Modern critical views.
(NY Chelsea House 1986) PA4037.H774
Dickson, Keith. Nestor : poetic memory in Greek epic.
(NY Garland Pub.1995) PA4037 .D46 1995
Edwards, Anthony T. Achilles in the Odyssey. .
(Konigstein 1985) PA4167 .E38
Felson-Rubin, Nancy, Regarding Penelope : from character to poetics.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1994.
PA4170.P46 F45 1994
Finley, Moses I., The World of Odysseus.
(London: Chatto and Windus 1977 2nd ed. revised and reset).
Katz, Marylin A., Penelope's renown : meaning and indeterminacy in the Odyssey.
(Princeton UP c1991) PA4170.P46
K38
Page, Denys. The Homeric Odyssey.
Parry, Milman. The Making of Homeric verse:
the collected papers of Milman Parry.
Pucci, Pietro, Odysseus Polutropos :
intertextual readings in the Odyssey and the Iliad.
(Cornell UP c1987) PA4037.P8
Reading the Odyssey : selected interpretive essays. ed., intro. by Seth L.
Schein.
(Princeton UP 1996) PA4167.R43
Segal, Charles, Singers, heroes, and gods in the Odyssey.
(Cornell UP 1994) PA4167.S44
Stanford, William Bedell. The Ulysses theme :
a study in the adaptability of a traditional hero.
(Dallas, Spring Pub 1992) PN57.03S83
Twentieth century interpretations of the Odyssey : a collection of critical essays
ed. Howard W. Clarke (Prentice-Hall c1983) PA4167 .T85 1983
