The English translation of Homer's masterpiece matches the Greek line for line; no other translation is more faithful to the original. The result is a melodic version that preserves Homer's style.<br /><br />A glossary and a map of the Greek world accompany the text.<br /><br /><em>The Odyssey</em> in Antiquity provides contextual materials and commentary to increase readers' appreciation for literature and life in the Homeric age.<br /><br />A collection of nine assessments of <em>The Odyssey</em> by ancient and medieval writers, including Pindar, Aristotle, Seneca, and Scholia, is featured.<br /><br />Essays by G. S. Kirk and Martin P. Nilsson, respectively, discuss poetic conventions and the socioreligious order Homer depicts.<br /><br />Criticism provides sixteen wide-ranging interpretations of <em>The Odyssey</em>. Included are seminal essays by Jean Racine, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Ezra Pound, Cedric H. Whitman, and A. C. Goodson.<br /><br />Albert Cook, Elizabeth Storz, Norman Austin, and John Peradotto provide new perspectives on the poem.<br /><br />An updated Selected Bibliography is also included.