Homer Circa Eighth Century B.C. - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

Bibliography

Combellack, F. M. "Contemporary Homeric Scholarship: Sound or Fury?" The Classical Weekly 49, Nos. 2, 3, and 4 (October 24; November 14; November 28, 1955): 17-26, 29-44, 45-55.

Surveys Homeric scholarship up to 1955, examining the state of studies on such topics as orality, archeology, literary merit, sources transmission, and editions of the poems.

Criticism

Adkins, Arthur W. H. "Homer: Free Will and Compulsion." In Merit and Responsibility: A Study in Greek Values, pp. 10-29. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1960.

Examines the influence of the gods and of fate over the actions of the characters in Homer's epics.

Adorno, T. W. "Odysseus, or Mythos and Enlightenment." In Homer: The "Odyssey" translated and edited by Albert Cook, pp. 428-36. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1974.

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