Companion to the Odyssey (Willcock - pbk)

Author: Malcolm M. Willcock

ISBN: 9780226898551

Binding: paperback

Section: Literature of the Ancient World

Those who are able to read Homer in Greek have ample recourse to commentaries, but the vast majority who read the Iliad in translation have not been so well served—the many available translations contain few, if any, notes. For these readers, Malcolm M. Willcock provides a line-by-line commentary that explains the many factual details, mythological allusions, and Homeric conventions that a student or general reader could not be expected to bring to an initial encounter with the Iliad.