Dimock, George E. Jr., “The Name of Odysseus.
” In Essays on the Odyssey
. Ed. Charles H. Taylor, Jr. Bloomington, Indiana: University Press. 1963. A book of essays which give modern critical interpretations of the poem.
Eckert, Charles W., “Initiatory Motifs in the Story of Telemachus.
” In Twentieth Century Interpretations of the Odyssey
. Ed. Howard W. Clarke. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1983. Also a book of essays with modern critical interpretations of the poem. Recently published.
Finley, John H. Jr.
, Homer’s Odyssey
. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 1978. A book which describes and analyzes in detail the story and the characters of Homer’s Odyssey
.
Fitzgerald, Robert. trans.
The Odyssey of Homer
. By Homer. Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, Double Day & Company, Inc., 1963. A lively, lucid translation of the Odyssey. Highly recommended by William G. Thalman, Yale Associate Professor of Classics, leader of the seminar on
Greek and Roman Mythology
.
Griffin, Jasper. Homer on Life and Death. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. A discussion of the Iliad and the Odyssey as products of the imagination of one person (Homer) who had a unique vision of the world, of the heroic concept, and of life and death.
Lievegood, Bernard.
Phases
. trans. H. S. Lake. London: Rudolf Steiner Press, 1979. Ancient and modern views of human development in the context of an anthroposophical view of man, written by a Dutch psychiatrist.
Stanford, William B.,
The Ulysses Theme
. Oxford, England: Basil Blackwell b Mott, Limited, 1954. A study tracing the development of the Ulysses theme through the ages. Starts with the pre-Homeric Uylsses figure and traces it through the Joyce’s Ulysses and Kazantzaki’s Odyssey.
Steward, Douglas J.
, The Disguised Guest
. Cranbury, New Jersey: Associated University Presses, 1976. A book, written by a professional classicist who describes himself as a non-Homerist, which concentrates on rank, role, and identity in the Odyssey.
