Suggested Readings
On Homer:
Vivante, Paolo, Homer, New Haven : Yale University Press, c1985
Lord, Albert Bates, The singer of tales, Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c1988
Hanson, Victor Davis, Who killed Homer? : the demise of classical education and the recovery of Greek wisdom San Francisco [Calif.] : Encounter Books, c2001
On the ILIAD:
Bespaloff, Rachel, On the Iliad. [New York] Pantheon Books [1947]
Weil, Simone, The Iliad; or, The poem of force. [Translated by Mary McCarthy] Wallingford, Pa., Pendle Hill [1981,c1956]
Whitman, Cedric Hubbell, Homer and the heroic tradition, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1958
Knox, Bernard, “Introduction” to The Iliad / Homer ; translated by Robert Fagles ; New York, N.Y. : Viking, 1990
On the ODYSSEY:
Fitzgerald, Robert, “Afterword” at the end of his translation of The Odyssey, Homer, New York : Doubleday, 1963
Austin, Norman, Archery at the dark of the moon : poetic problems in Homer’s Odyssey
Berkeley : University of California Press, 1975
Walcott, Derek, Omeros ,New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, c1990
Walcott, Derek, The Odyssey: A Stage Version,New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, c1993
Nagy, Gregory , Poetry as performance : Homer and beyond
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996