A Commentary on Homers Odyssey: Volume II: Books IX-XVI
by Alfred Heubeck, Stephanie West, John Bryan Hainsworth, Arie Hoekstra
Category: Literary Criticism

In the second volume, the commentaries by Heubeck (Books IX-XII) and Hoekstra (Books XIII-XVI) are both preceded by introductions, with Hoekstra paying special attention to diction in the Odyssey and the tradition of epic diction in general. The introductions and commentary have beenthoroughly revised and adapted to the text of T. W. Allen in the Oxford Classical Text series.