Criticism

Mega biblion, mega kakon.
[A big book is a big evil.]
Callimachus

Although the topics inevitably overlap the list that follows has been divided into three
sections: Homer, Odyssey, Iliad.

Homer

Carter, Jane B., and Sara P. Morris, eds.TheAges ofHomer. 1995.

Edwards, Mark W.Homer:Poetofthe I iad. 1987. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1988.

Lateiner, Donald.Sardonic Smi e: NonverbalBehavior i n Homeric Epic.U of Michigan P,
1995.

Lefkowitz, Mary. "Homer's Epic: 2,800 Years Old and Still Relevant."Associationof
Li erary Scholarsand Crit cs Newsletter5.2 (Summer 1999) 4-5.

Nardo, Don, ed.Readings onHomer. San Diego: Greenhaven 1998. 176p.

Pucci, Pietro.Odysseus Polutropos:Intertextual Readings i n t he Odyssey and i nthe Il ad.
Cornell UP.

Reece, Steve.TheStranger'sWelcome: Oral Theoryand theAestheticsofthe Homeri c
HospitalityScene. Michigan Monographs in Classical Antiquity. Ann Arbor: U of
Michigan P, 1993.

Scully, Stephen. Homer and the Sacred City. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1990. 230p.

Odyssey

Boitani, Piero.TheShadow of Ulysses:FiguresonaMyth.Trans. Anita Weston. Oxford:
Clarendon, 1994.

Clay, Jenny Strauss.The W rathofAthena:Godsand Meninthe Odyssey.Princeton:
Princeton UP, 1983.

Cohen, Beth, ed. The Distaff Side: Representing the Female in Homer's Odyssey. New
York: Oxford UP, 1995. 229p.

Cook, Erwin F. The Odyssey in Athens: Myths of Cultural Origin. 1995.

Crotty, Kevin. The Poetics of Supplication: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Ithaca: Cornell
UP, 1994. 240p.

Dimock, George E. "The Name of Odysseus." The Hudson Review9.1 (Spring 1956) 52-
70. Rpt. in Homer, The Odyssey. Trans Albert Cook. Norton Critical Edition. New
York: Norton, 1967. 406-24.

---. The Unity of the Odyssey. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1989. 343p.

Doherty, Lillian Eileen. "Joyce's Penelope and Homer's: Feminist Reconsiderations."
Classicaland M odern Li erature(1990): 343-49.

-- -.Siren Songs: Gender, Audiences, andNarrators in the Odyssey. Ann Arbor: U of
Michigan P, 1995.

Felson-Rubin, Nancy.RegardingPenelope:From Character to Poet cs. Princeton:
Princeton UP, 1993. 232p.

Finley, M. I.TheWorldof Odysseus.Rev. ed. New York: Viking, 1965. 192p.

Heilbrun, Carolyn. "What Was Penelope Unweaving?" Haml et'sMother andOther Women.
New York: Columbia UP, 1990. 103-11.

Katz, Marylin A.Penelope's Renown: M eaning andIndet erminacy in theOdyssey.
Princeton: Princeton UP, 1991.

Lee, M. Owen.TheOli ve- TreeBed andOther Quests. U of Toronto P, 1997.

Louden, Bruce. The Odyssey: Structure, Narration, and Meaning. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins UP, 1999. 182p.

Malkin, Irad.TheReturnsofOdysseus: Colonizat on andEt hnicity. Berkeley: U of
California P.

Page, Denys Lionel.Folktalesin Homer's Odyssey. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1973. 141p.

Pucci, Pietro.TheSong ofthe Si rensand Other Essays.Littlefield Adams, 1995. 208p.

Schein, Seth L., ed.Reading theOdyssey: Selected I nterpret ve Essays. Princeton: Princeton
UP, 1996.

Scott, Shirley Clay. "Man, Mind, and Monster: Polyphemus from Homer through Joyce."
Classicaland M odern Li erature (1995) 19-75.

Segal, Charles.Singers, Heroes, and Godsin the Odyssey. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1994. 244p.

Stanford, W. B.TheUlyssesTheme: A Study i n t heAdaptabi i yofaTradit onal Hero. 2n d
ed. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1968. 340p.

Thamann, William C.TheSwineherd andthe B ow: Represent ations of Classinthe Odyssey.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP.

Winkler, John J. "Penelope's Cunning and Homer's." I nConstraints of Desi re: The
Anthropology of Sexand GenderinAncientGreece. New York: Routledge, 1990.
129-61, 232-33.

Iliad

Becker, Andrew Sprague.TheShield of Achi lesand thePoeticsofEkphrasis.Rowman and
Littlefield, 1995. 200p.

Frazer, R. M.AReadingof the I iad. Lanham: UP of America, 1993.

Morrison, James V.Homeric Mi sdirection: FalsePredictions in theIli ad. Michigan
Monographs in Classical Antiquity. 1992.

O'Brien, Joan.TheTransformat on of Hera: A Study of R tualHero,and t heGoddessofthe
Il ad.University Press of America, 1993.

Rabel, Robert J.Plot and PointofViewinthe I iad. U of Michigan P, 1997.

Shay, Jonathan, and Leon Golden, eds.Understanding A chi les: ClassicalBulletin (Special
1995 Issue).

Slatkin, Laura M.ThePowerof Thet s: Al usion and Interpretationinthe I iad.U of
California P, 1992.

Zanker, Graham.TheHeartof Achil es:Characterizat on andPersonal Et hicsinthe I iad.
Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1994.