The Odyssey: Selections

Homer

déc. 2019 · Broadview Press

À propos de cet e-book

This new edition of Homer’s epic poem is designed with the needs of undergraduate students in mind. The selections, totalling almost half the full work, include all the most famous and most frequently taught episodes. The edition features numerous explanatory footnotes, an illuminating introduction, a glossary of names (with a guide to pronunciation), maps, examples of scenes from the Odyssey depicted in ancient art, and a range of other background materials that help set Homer’s classic in its historical and literary context.

À propos de l'auteur

Ian Johnston’s other works include translations of Antigone, Oedipus the King, and several other classical Greek texts, as well as numerous translations of Latin, French, and German works, among them Broadview editions of Kant’s On Perpetual Peace, Kafka’s The Metamorphosis and Other Stories, and Rousseau’s Fundamental Political Writings. Now retired, Johnston was for many years a professor at Vancouver Island University.