Recommended for Advance Purchase/Reading
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Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey: Lattimore’s translations are unsurpassed for
their faithfulness and for their original feel (verse numbers are
exact); Fagles’s are quite excellent as well (verse numbers are
inexact).
- Fowler, Robert, ed. 2004. The Cambridge Companion to Homer. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. (2nd, corrected ed. in press) [Contains
eight essays on Homeric reception alone, down to the present day.]
- Russell, D. A. and Michael Winterbottom. 1989. Classical Literary
Criticism. The World’s Classics. Rev. ed. Oxford and New York: Oxford
University Press. (Contains Plato's Ion; bits of Plato's Republic; Aristotle’s Poetics; Longinus) [Inexpensive
and unbeatable translations. Others are acceptable.]
- Wolf, F. A. 1985. Prolegomena to Homer. 1795. Translated by Anthony
Grafton, Glenn W. Most, and James E. G Zetzel. Princeton: Princeton
University Press. [Out of print, but available used in pb and online
through ACLS History E-Book Project: consult your local university
library.]
- Wood, Michael. 1998. In Search of the Trojan War. Rev. ed. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Additionally, all of the primary and secondary readings for the seminar
will be made available for downloading (in PDF format) a good month or
two in advance of the first meeting.
